neighbourhood in Den Haag

Rustenburg

6,160 residents · postal code 2574 · Part of Rustenburg en Oostbroek, Den Haag

Bottom 25% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Rustenburg counts a good eighteen thousand residents per square kilometre, and that is visible in practically every figure. The quiet gets no further than a 3.3: little greenery around and a noise level above the Dutch median. Wealth & income sticks at a 3.2, with a property value far below the national one and a social assistance level of almost four times the usual.

The exception is burglary. While violence, theft and vandalism all three lie above the national middle, burglary in Rustenburg comes out at about a third of the national level — and burglary weighs more heavily in the safety pillar than theft and vandalism together. Without that outlier downwards there would not have been a 5.0 but a considerably lower figure.

no. 9,819 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 70 of 110 in Den Haag

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Is Rustenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Rustenburg comes out at 32 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.

Total crime

31.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

12.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 301 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

3.4 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

4.6 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 255,000

Welfare recipients

30.8 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

53%

Social housing

16%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

21%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

18,237 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

7,633

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Rustenburg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+11%
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
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
18,237 — 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 Rustenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Rustenburg comes out at 32 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 Rustenburg?

In Rustenburg the police recorded 301 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (32 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 Rustenburg calculated?

Rustenburg scores 4.4 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 Rustenburg 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.