neighbourhood in Den Haag
Rijslag
1,765 residents · postal code 2586 · Part of Scheveningen, Den Haag
Good for children, with a safety question
Rijslag has a vacancy rate more than twice the national median, and in Scheveningen that is a figure with a story: it pushes down the wealth & income score while the property value is well above the median. The pillar therefore lands on a 6.7 instead of higher.
The primary school is two hundred metres away and that lifts families to a 9.0, while relatively few children live here and more than a quarter of residents are 65 or older. Distance is nearly two thirds of that pillar, which makes the score more favourable here than the age structure.
Safety stalls at a 3.1, and that comes from three directions: violence is twice the median, residential burglary almost three times and vandalism nearly twice. Only property crime barely deviates from the national median.
- no. 5,357 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 39 of 110 in Den Haag
How Rijslag scores
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Is Rijslag a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rijslag comes out at 30 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, 80 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
The age profile of Rijslag looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,137 — 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 Rijslag a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rijslag comes out at 30 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 Rijslag?
In Rijslag the police recorded 80 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Rijslag calculated?
Rijslag scores 6.9 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 Rijslag 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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