neighbourhood in Den Haag
Waldeck-Zuid
2,045 residents · postal code 2551 · Part of Waldeck, Den Haag
Everything close by, little to spend
In Waldeck-Zuid more than a third of residents are 65 or over and a quarter of households have children — and yet families score 7.2. That figure mainly measures the distance to school and childcare, and here it is short. Anyone reading it as a neighbourhood full of young families reads it wrong.
The station is more than six kilometres away, and still the amenities pillar comes out at 8.7: the supermarket, the GP and a restaurant are all within half a kilometre, and those are the heaviest-weighted components. The wealth & income figure of 3.0 is the sharpest result here: property value is far below the national median, high incomes are scarce and social assistance runs to many times the national median.
- no. 7,591 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 52 of 110 in Den Haag
How Waldeck-Zuid scores
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Is Waldeck-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waldeck-Zuid comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 49 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
Waldeck-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,899 — 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 Waldeck-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waldeck-Zuid comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Waldeck-Zuid?
In Waldeck-Zuid the police recorded 49 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Waldeck-Zuid calculated?
Waldeck-Zuid scores 5.6 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 Waldeck-Zuid 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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