neighbourhood in Den Haag

Kortenbos

7,850 residents · postal code 2513 · Part of Centrum, Den Haag

Bottom 13% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

In Kortenbos low incomes are more widely represented than nationally, while the share of top incomes is at the same time slightly above it. The middle group is thin here, and that is a distribution you do not see in the table because the two ends stand separately from each other. On top of that, one in ten homes is vacant, more than twice the national middle, and social assistance is many times above it. Together that produces a 3.7 for wealth, despite a property value that is not extremely low.

The crime total is many times higher than the Dutch middle, and that holds for all four types. Violence is almost four times above it. A 2.7 for safety does not rest on chance at those numbers.

Against that stands a 9.5 for amenities: everything you need daily is within a few minutes' walk. Greenery is not — that stays far below the national level.

no. 11,474 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 98 of 110 in Den Haag

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Is Kortenbos 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

87.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

8.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

33.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

11.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 1,198 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.1 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

3.2 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

€ 346,000

Welfare recipients

54.8 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

10%

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

36%

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

12,985 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

21%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

8,461

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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.

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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

0.5 km

Households with children

17%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kortenbos has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 37%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4537%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,985 — 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 Kortenbos a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kortenbos comes out at 87 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kortenbos 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 Kortenbos?

In Kortenbos the police recorded 1,198 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (87 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 Kortenbos calculated?

Kortenbos scores 3.4 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 Kortenbos 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.