neighbourhood in Den Haag

Leyenburg

17,025 residents · postal code 2547 · Part of Leyenburg, Den Haag

Bottom 27% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The income distribution in Leyenburg is close to the Dutch one: at the bottom end even a fraction more favourable, at the top the difference is small. Social assistance benefits do occur more often than nationally. That the wealth pillar nonetheless stays at a 3.9 comes mainly from the property value, the heaviest component of that figure and here far below the Dutch median.

On the safety side theft is the story: well over double the national level. Violence is slightly above it, burglary likewise, but the distance to the middle is small there — the 3.7 comes mainly from the property offences.

What makes the neighbourhood practical is the proximity. Shop, GP, school and restaurant are all within seven hundred metres, good for a 8.6. The railway station is a good deal further at almost four kilometres, and that counts in the same pillar.

no. 9,660 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 67 of 110 in Den Haag

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Is Leyenburg 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

38.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

20.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 956 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

0.7 km

Train station

3.7 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.2 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.8 km

Motorway ramp

3.7 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

€ 282,000

Welfare recipients

17.6 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

13%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

10%

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

13,205 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

5,978

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

0.6 km

Households with children

27%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.8 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Leyenburg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,205 — 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 Leyenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Leyenburg comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Leyenburg 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 Leyenburg?

In Leyenburg the police recorded 956 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Leyenburg calculated?

Leyenburg 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 Leyenburg 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.