neighbourhood in Den Haag
De Venen
1,805 residents · postal code 2496 · Part of Ypenburg, Den Haag
Good for children, with a safety question
The railway station is six hundred metres away, and for a residential neighbourhood that is exceptional. It explains part of the 7.0 for amenities and, at the same time, part of the 3.4 for quiet & nature: the noise level in De Venen is more than eight decibels above the national median.
The safety score of 2.9 comes from two directions at once. Violence here is more than three times the national median and property crime more than twice; only residential burglary barely deviates. With more than eighteen hundred residents those are not flukes.
On wealth & income the property value is hardly distinguishable from the national median, and the income distribution deviates slightly upwards. What pushes the 5.7 down is the number of social assistance payments, more than three times the median. Families stands best at a 9.0, with primary school and GP just over a kilometre away.
- no. 9,671 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 69 of 110 in Den Haag
How De Venen scores
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Is De Venen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Venen comes out at 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Venen is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 171 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
De Venen has strikingly many children under 15: 24%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1524%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,365 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is De Venen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Venen comes out at 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Venen is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Venen?
In De Venen the police recorded 171 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (57 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for De Venen calculated?
De Venen scores 4.5 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where De Venen lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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