neighbourhood in Haarlem
De Goede Hoop
2,590 residents · postal code 2021 · Part of Transvaalwijk, Haarlem
Everything close by, little space
The number of recorded offences in De Goede Hoop is clearly above the national median, and yet the safety score is 7.0. That is not an error in the arithmetic. Violence and residential burglary both sit below the national middle here, and those are the two heaviest items; what drives the total up is property crime, almost twice the usual level. Things disappear, people are barely attacked.
The real problem in this neighbourhood is space. The greenery within three hundred metres comes nowhere near the national level, the tree canopy is half as dense as normal, and the building density is among the highest in the country. Hence the 2.9 for quiet & nature, right next to an 8.9 for amenities: everything is within walking distance precisely because so much is packed into one square kilometre.
Anyone looking here trades a garden for a city that starts at the front door.
- no. 4,914 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 57 of 97 in Haarlem
How De Goede Hoop scores
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Is De Goede Hoop a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Goede Hoop comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 117 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
De Goede Hoop has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 42%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
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
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,721 — 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 De Goede Hoop a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Goede Hoop comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.0. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 31 records per 1,000, 1.3 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Goede Hoop?
In De Goede Hoop the police recorded 117 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 De Goede Hoop calculated?
De Goede Hoop scores 7.2 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 De Goede Hoop 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haarlem.
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