neighbourhood in Den Haag
Schildersbuurt-West
14,120 residents · postal code 2525 · Part of Schildersbuurt, Den Haag
Everything close by, little space
Schildersbuurt-West has more than twenty-two thousand residents per square kilometre and is therefore among the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. The quiet pillar is correspondingly low: a 2.5, one of the lowest in the country. A good fifth of the surroundings is green, water is entirely absent and the traffic noise is considerably above the national median.
That same density produces a 9.7 for families. The primary school is four hundred metres away, and distance to education and childcare is by far the heaviest component of that figure.
What is not there is money. The top income group here is as good as empty, well over half of households fall into the lowest, the property value stays far below the Dutch middle and social assistance is more than ten times above the national figure. Only the vacancy rate is ordinary.
- no. 11,220 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 94 of 110 in Den Haag
How Schildersbuurt-West scores
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Is Schildersbuurt-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt-West comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schildersbuurt-West 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, 1,007 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-West has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 12%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
21,944 — 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-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schildersbuurt-West comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schildersbuurt-West 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-West?
In Schildersbuurt-West the police recorded 1,007 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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-West calculated?
Schildersbuurt-West scores 3.6 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-West 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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