neighbourhood in Den Haag
Rivierenbuurt-Noord
3,885 residents · postal code 2515 · Part of Stationsbuurt, Den Haag
Everything close by, safety lags
In Rivierenbuurt-Noord incomes are far apart. Both the share of households with a high income and the share with a low income sit above the national median — the middle group here is thin, and that is something other than a poor neighbourhood. The 3.8 for wealth & income comes from the combination: homes below the national value, a lot of social assistance and a vacancy rate double the national median.
The safety figure of 2.7 cannot be filed away as a 'busy centre where bicycles disappear'. Property offences do run many times above the middle, but so does violent crime, and violence weighs heaviest in this pillar. Both things are true here at once.
The 7.3 for families deserves a footnote, because that pillar is nearly two thirds distance to school and childcare. The primary school is around the corner, and that pulls the figure up. Only about one in five households here has children, and six in ten consist of a single person. The figure measures reach, not an abundance of children.
- no. 11,061 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 90 of 110 in Den Haag
How Rivierenbuurt-Noord scores
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Is Rivierenbuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rivierenbuurt-Noord comes out at 120 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rivierenbuurt-Noord 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, 832 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
Rivierenbuurt-Noord has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,989 — 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 Rivierenbuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rivierenbuurt-Noord comes out at 120 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rivierenbuurt-Noord 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 Rivierenbuurt-Noord?
In Rivierenbuurt-Noord the police recorded 832 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (120 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 Rivierenbuurt-Noord calculated?
Rivierenbuurt-Noord scores 3.7 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 Rivierenbuurt-Noord 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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