neighbourhood in Den Haag
Schildersbuurt-Oost
6,665 residents · postal code 2526 · Part of Schildersbuurt, Den Haag
Everything close by, little space
Schildersbuurt-Oost scores 9.9 twice and still ends up on a 4.0. Those top figures are both distance figures: amenities measures nothing other than how far the supermarket, GP and station are, and the families pillar consists largely of the distance to school, childcare and secondary education. The primary school is round the corner. What happens behind the front door is measured by neither.
The violence figure here is more than three times the national one, and violence weighs heaviest in the safety pillar. So this is not the profile of a busy place where only bicycles disappear; vandalism too is far above the median, only burglary is not.
The 2.9 for wealth & income rests on all components at once: a property value far below the national middle, a top income group a quarter of the usual size, and a social assistance figure that reaches fourteen times the median.
- no. 10,542 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 81 of 110 in Den Haag
How Schildersbuurt-Oost scores
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Is Schildersbuurt-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt-Oost comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schildersbuurt-Oost 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, 463 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
Schildersbuurt-Oost has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
19,124 — 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 Schildersbuurt-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt-Oost comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schildersbuurt-Oost 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 Schildersbuurt-Oost?
In Schildersbuurt-Oost the police recorded 463 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 Schildersbuurt-Oost calculated?
Schildersbuurt-Oost scores 4.0 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 Schildersbuurt-Oost 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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