neighbourhood in Den Haag

Haagse Bos

490 residents · postal code 2594 · Part of Haagse Bos, Den Haag

Bottom 45% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The violence figure in Haagse Bos is almost nine times the national median, and with four hundred and ninety residents that is a statement about small numbers: a handful of reports moves such a figure a long way. The direction is nonetheless clear, because property crime and vandalism are far above the median too.

At the same time there is an 8.5 for quiet & nature, and it is just as well founded: the tree canopy within three hundred metres covers more than three times the national level and the density is a fraction of what is usual elsewhere in The Hague. Only the noise level is above the median.

On families the neighbourhood gets no further than a 4.4. More than four in ten residents are 65 or older and fewer than a tenth of households have children; the primary school is also more than a kilometre away, and that component weighs heaviest.

no. 7,316 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 50 of 110 in Den Haag

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Is Haagse Bos a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

119.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

20.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

33.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

10.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 153 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.7 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

3.0 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 295,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

36%

Low incomes

29%

Vacancy

23%

Owner-occupied

44%

Social housing

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

417 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

58%

Trees nearby

29%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

4,072

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.2 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

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Who lives here

Haagse Bos has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 44%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–153%
NL median 14%
15–255%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+44%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
67% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
417 — far less 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 Haagse Bos a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Haagse Bos comes out at 120 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Haagse Bos 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 Haagse Bos?

In Haagse Bos the police recorded 153 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (120 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 Haagse Bos calculated?

Haagse Bos scores 5.8 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 Haagse Bos 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.