neighbourhood in Den Haag
Nieuw Waldeck
7,375 residents · postal code 2551 · Part of Waldeck, Den Haag
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Almost twelve thousand residents to a square kilometre, and yet a 7.2 for quiet. Nieuw Waldeck owes that to a noise level that stays below the national value, to a crown area of trees that lies well above it and to open water.
The safety picture turns the urban expectation on its head. Theft and burglary are registered less often than nationally; what causes the 4.3 is violence, which occurs twice as often as in the average Dutch neighbourhood and forms the heaviest component of that pillar. At the bottom is wealth with a 2.9: not even a tenth of the households have a high income, almost half a low one, and the social assistance share lies more than seven times above the national value. The families figure of 9.2 comes to stand sharply next to that, carried by the school around the corner.
- no. 8,135 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 57 of 110 in Den Haag
How Nieuw Waldeck scores
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Is Nieuw Waldeck a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw Waldeck comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 267 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
Nieuw Waldeck has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,881 — 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 Nieuw Waldeck a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw Waldeck comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Nieuw Waldeck?
In Nieuw Waldeck the police recorded 267 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Nieuw Waldeck calculated?
Nieuw Waldeck scores 5.3 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 Nieuw Waldeck 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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