neighbourhood in Den Haag
Moerwijk-West
6,380 residents · postal code 2533 · Part of Moerwijk, Den Haag
Everything close by, little to spend
Moerwijk-West's social assistance figure is almost twenty times above the national middle — the most pronounced number of this neighbourhood. Together with a property value of less than half the median and a top income group that barely exists, that yields a 2.5 for wealth & income.
The violence figure here is more than three times above the national one, and that pulls the safety pillar to a 3.1. One type comes out the other way: burglary is registered in Moerwijk-West less often than nationally.
With quiet & nature the matter lies more subtly than the figure suggests. The greenery in the surroundings sits on the national middle and the canopy even above it; what makes the 4.1 are the population density and a noise level above the median. Against that stands a 8.8 for families, and that figure comes almost entirely from the proximity of the primary school.
- no. 10,877 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 89 of 110 in Den Haag
How Moerwijk-West scores
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Is Moerwijk-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Moerwijk-West comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Moerwijk-West 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, 507 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
Moerwijk-West has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,533 — 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 Moerwijk-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Moerwijk-West comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Moerwijk-West 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 Moerwijk-West?
In Moerwijk-West the police recorded 507 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (58 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 Moerwijk-West calculated?
Moerwijk-West scores 3.8 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 Moerwijk-West 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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