neighbourhood in Den Haag
Waterbuurt
4,675 residents · postal code 2497 · Part of Ypenburg, Den Haag
Everything for children close by, and little room
Almost a quarter of the Waterbuurt's surface is water — a multiple of what is usual nationally, and the direct reason the quiet & nature pillar reaches 6.1 in a place with nearly six thousand residents per square kilometre. For once the name is a measurement.
Half of households have children, and together with the short school distance that yields an 8.7 for families. On safety a caveat applies: burglary, theft and vandalism are all below the national median, but violence is clearly above it. That is the reverse of what the overall 7.6 suggests, and it is the one type holding this figure down.
The property value is above the national median and the top income group is wide; the social assistance rate is well above it and explains why the wealth pillar stays at 6.6.
- no. 2,728 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 20 of 110 in Den Haag
How Waterbuurt scores
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Is Waterbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterbuurt comes out at 19 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, 114 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
Waterbuurt has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 11%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,662 — 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 Waterbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterbuurt comes out at 19 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 Waterbuurt?
In Waterbuurt the police recorded 114 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Waterbuurt calculated?
Waterbuurt scores 8.4 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 Waterbuurt 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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