neighbourhood in Haarlem

Erasmusbuurt

2,515 residents · postal code 2037 · Part of Meerwijk, Haarlem

Bottom 39% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Erasmusbuurt reaches 9.8 for families and 3.5 for wealth & income, and both figures are about the same households. The primary school is three hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children; that carries the families pillar almost entirely. At the same time the social assistance rate here is almost ten times above the national middle.

The safety score of 3.7 does not come from theft, which stays below the median. It is violence that is recorded at more than double the national rate, and at almost a third it weighs the heaviest of all offence types. For residents these are two very different neighbourhoods in one: one where the school is around the corner, and one where the police figures tell another story.

no. 8,085 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 80 of 97 in Haarlem

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Is Erasmusbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Erasmusbuurt comes out at 27 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.

Total crime

27.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

7.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 82 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

4.6 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 334,000

Welfare recipients

75.5 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

53%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

16%

Social housing

81%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

28%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

12,362 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

38%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

3,260

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.3 km

Households with children

42%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

2.5 km

Residents under 15

21%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Erasmusbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1521%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,362 — 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 Erasmusbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Erasmusbuurt comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Erasmusbuurt?

In Erasmusbuurt the police recorded 82 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Erasmusbuurt calculated?

Erasmusbuurt scores 5.4 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 Erasmusbuurt 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.