neighbourhood in Den Haag
Venen, Oorden en Raden
8,400 residents · postal code 2544 · Part of Bouwlust, Den Haag
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
In Venen, Oorden en Raden a great many children really do live: more than a third of the households have children, and the primary school is within walking distance. That yields a 9.7 for families — a high score that therefore does not rest here on short distances alone, which with this pillar is by no means always the case.
Set against that is a 2.9 for safety, with all four counted crime types above the Dutch median and violence at more than double. The quiet pillar holds up better than you would expect in such a densely populated neighbourhood, and that is down to the trees: the tree canopy in the immediate surroundings is almost twice as dense as in the average Dutch neighbourhood. The railway station is the exception to accessibility, at five kilometres by far the longest distance the neighbourhood knows.
- no. 9,602 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 66 of 110 in Den Haag
How Venen, Oorden en Raden scores
Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Venen, Oorden en Raden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Venen, Oorden en Raden comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Venen, Oorden en Raden 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, 610 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Den Haag →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Den Haag →
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
Venen, Oorden en Raden has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 12%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,560 — 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 Venen, Oorden en Raden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Venen, Oorden en Raden comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Venen, Oorden en Raden 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 Venen, Oorden en Raden?
In Venen, Oorden en Raden the police recorded 610 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (50 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 Venen, Oorden en Raden calculated?
Venen, Oorden en Raden 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 Venen, Oorden en Raden 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Den Haag
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Den Haag.
Highest grades
Lowest grades
More about this area
Nearby neighbourhoods
Zijden, Steden en Zichten
Den Haag
Kerketuinen en Zichtenburg
Den Haag
De Uithof
Den Haag
Dreven en Gaarden
Den Haag
Morgenstond-West
Den Haag
Houtwijk
Den Haag