neighbourhood in Den Haag
Transvaalkwartier-Midden
4,975 residents · postal code 2572 · Part of Transvaalkwartier, Den Haag
Everything close by, little space
A 9.6 for families alongside a 2.9 for wealth in the same neighbourhood: Transvaalkwartier-Midden shows that those two pillars stand apart from each other. The families figure is deserved — the primary school is close by, a good third of households have children and relatively many young children live there. What does not come with it is money: more than half of households fall into the bottom income group and the social assistance figure is a multiple of the national one.
The quiet score is among the very lowest in the country, and that is no surprise with more than eighteen thousand residents per square kilometre. There is hardly any greenery in the immediate surroundings and virtually no tree canopy; the noise level lies above the Dutch median.
Among the offences it revolves around theft, which is counted twice as often there as average, and around violence, which also lies well above it. Burglary is the exception: only a few are registered over a whole year.
- no. 9,665 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 68 of 110 in Den Haag
How Transvaalkwartier-Midden scores
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Is Transvaalkwartier-Midden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Transvaalkwartier-Midden comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Transvaalkwartier-Midden 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, 322 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
Transvaalkwartier-Midden has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 14%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
18,216 — 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 Transvaalkwartier-Midden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Transvaalkwartier-Midden comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Transvaalkwartier-Midden 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 Transvaalkwartier-Midden?
In Transvaalkwartier-Midden the police recorded 322 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Transvaalkwartier-Midden calculated?
Transvaalkwartier-Midden scores 4.5 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 Transvaalkwartier-Midden 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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