neighbourhood in Den Haag
Zijden, Steden en Zichten
7,850 residents · postal code 2543 · Part of Bouwlust, Den Haag
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Zijden, Steden en Zichten gets a 9.7 for families and a 2.8 for wealth. Both figures are right, and two pillars in the same neighbourhood can hardly lie further apart.
The families score rests on short distances — the primary school is four hundred metres away — and on a young population: almost one in five residents is under fifteen. The wealth score rests on the opposite: a property value far below the Dutch middle, few earners at the top end, many at the bottom, and a social assistance figure that leaves the national level far behind.
Striking is the 6.4 for quiet in such a densely populated urban neighbourhood. The vegetation around the homes lies above the Dutch middle and the tree canopy comes to almost double. On safety the picture is mixed: violence lies well above the national level, while burglary stays below it.
- no. 7,441 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 51 of 110 in Den Haag
How Zijden, Steden en Zichten scores
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Is Zijden, Steden en Zichten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zijden, Steden en Zichten comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zijden, Steden en Zichten 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, 453 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
Zijden, Steden en Zichten has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,222 — 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 Zijden, Steden en Zichten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zijden, Steden en Zichten comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zijden, Steden en Zichten 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 Zijden, Steden en Zichten?
In Zijden, Steden en Zichten the police recorded 453 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Zijden, Steden en Zichten calculated?
Zijden, Steden en Zichten scores 5.7 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 Zijden, Steden en Zichten 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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