neighbourhood in Den Haag
Noordpolderbuurt
8,415 residents · postal code 2516 · Part of Laakkwartier en Spoorwijk, Den Haag
Everything close by, little space
What is missing in the Noordpolderbuurt is the top end. Fewer than a tenth of the households have a high income, against almost a fifth nationally, and the share of social assistance recipients is a multiple of the Dutch middle. The property value does not reach six tenths of what is normal elsewhere. Together that yields a 2.6 for wealth, with all components pointing the same way.
Even so the neighbourhood achieves a 9.3 for families, because that pillar mainly weighs walking distances and the primary school is close by here. The real sore point is quiet: more than seventeen thousand residents per square kilometre, no surface water, fewer trees than nationally and more noise. That score has nothing to do with crime — that counts in another pillar.
- no. 10,631 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 82 of 110 in Den Haag
How Noordpolderbuurt scores
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Is Noordpolderbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noordpolderbuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Noordpolderbuurt 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, 495 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
Noordpolderbuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
17,101 — 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 Noordpolderbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noordpolderbuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Noordpolderbuurt 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 Noordpolderbuurt?
In Noordpolderbuurt the police recorded 495 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Noordpolderbuurt calculated?
Noordpolderbuurt scores 3.9 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 Noordpolderbuurt 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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