neighbourhood in Haarlem
Nachtegaalbuurt
2,365 residents · postal code 2025 · Part of Vogelenwijk, Haarlem
Everything for children close by, and little room
More than fifteen thousand residents per square kilometre make Nachtegaalbuurt one of the most densely built neighbourhoods in Haarlem, and that is the reason for the 2.7 on quiet & nature — together with the absence of water and a tree canopy below the national value. Noise is only slightly above the median; it is the built-up density that makes this score.
Set against that are a 9.9 for families and a 9.7 for amenities, and those two come from the same source: everything here is within half a kilometre, the primary school first among them. Four in ten households have children and one in five residents is under fifteen.
Offences stay below the national middle, with burglary at practically zero. Only violence is a fraction above it, which keeps the safety pillar at 7.8 rather than higher — violence carries almost a third of that pillar.
- no. 752 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 97 in Haarlem
How Nachtegaalbuurt scores
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Is Nachtegaalbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nachtegaalbuurt comes out at 20 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, 59 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
Nachtegaalbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,244 — 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 Nachtegaalbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nachtegaalbuurt comes out at 20 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 Nachtegaalbuurt?
In Nachtegaalbuurt the police recorded 59 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Nachtegaalbuurt calculated?
Nachtegaalbuurt scores 9.6 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 Nachtegaalbuurt 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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