neighbourhood in Den Haag
Spoorwijk
3,820 residents · postal code 2524 · Part of Laakkwartier en Spoorwijk, Den Haag
Everything for children close by, and little room
Spoorwijk delivers a 9.9 for families and a 3.2 for wealth & income, and both figures are about the same households. A good four in ten households have children and the primary school is four hundred metres away; at the same time half of households have a low income and the number of social assistance claims per thousand residents is a multiple of the national level.
The quiet & nature pillar stays at a 3.2, and that is almost entirely noise: it sits a good eight decibels above the Dutch median here, while the tree canopy actually comes out above the national median. Greenery is not the problem here; noise is — and there is no open water to offset it.
The safety pillar stands at a 3.7 while the number of reported offences, though above the Dutch median, is not extreme. The explanation lies in violence, which occurs a good twice as often here as nationally and counts heaviest in this calculation. Burglary, by contrast, sits exactly at the national level.
- no. 7,779 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 54 of 110 in Den Haag
How Spoorwijk scores
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Is Spoorwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spoorwijk comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spoorwijk 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, 210 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
Spoorwijk has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,509 — 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 Spoorwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spoorwijk comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Spoorwijk 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 Spoorwijk?
In Spoorwijk the police recorded 210 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Spoorwijk calculated?
Spoorwijk scores 5.5 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 Spoorwijk 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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