neighbourhood in Haarlem
Planetenbuurt
1,770 residents · postal code 2024 · Part of Te Zaanenkwartier, Haarlem
Everything for children close by, and little room
An overall score of 10.0, and yet a 3.0 for quiet & nature — Planetenbuurt shows that the two do not rule each other out. Four of the five pillars are high here; quiet falls down on building density and on a green share far below the national middle.
Safety rests on a strikingly low violence figure: less than a quarter of the national median. The only type that comes out above is property crime. Together that makes the profile of a neighbourhood where belongings disappear but where the street is calm.
This is also emphatically an owner-occupied neighbourhood — more than nine in ten homes — with children in half of all households. That combination explains why wealth & income and families both come out above nine here, without a single outlier to point to.
- no. 78 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 97 in Haarlem
How Planetenbuurt scores
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Is Planetenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Planetenbuurt 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, 44 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
Planetenbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 23%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
51% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,582 — 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 Planetenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Planetenbuurt 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 Planetenbuurt?
In Planetenbuurt the police recorded 44 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 Planetenbuurt calculated?
Planetenbuurt scores 10.0 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 Planetenbuurt 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Haarlem
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haarlem.
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