neighbourhood in Den Haag
Rietbuurt
2,725 residents · postal code 2493 · Part of Leidschenveen, Den Haag
Well-off, but not spacious
Two thirds of households in the Rietbuurt have children and only one in seventeen residents is over sixty-five. That is an exceptional profile, and yet families gets no higher than a 7.8. The reason is distance: the primary school is nearly two kilometres away, and that is the heaviest component of the pillar. Here the score comes from the residents, not from the location.
The same distance hits amenities harder. The supermarket is more than two and a half kilometres away and carries the most weight within that pillar; the GP and the restaurant are close by.
The 8.6 for wealth & income is broadly grounded, with a property value far above the national median, many high incomes, few low ones and virtually no vacancy. One component departs from that: the social assistance rate is above the national figure. Noise is by some way the least favourable number in the quiet pillar.
- no. 3,731 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 27 of 110 in Den Haag
How Rietbuurt scores
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Is Rietbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rietbuurt comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 88 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
Rietbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 26%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1526%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
64% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,013 — 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 Rietbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rietbuurt comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Rietbuurt?
In Rietbuurt the police recorded 88 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Rietbuurt calculated?
Rietbuurt scores 7.9 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 Rietbuurt 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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