neighbourhood in Haarlem
Professorenbuurt
1,325 residents · postal code 2035 · Part of Boerhaavewijk, Haarlem
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
The rate of social assistance in Professorenbuurt is more than ten times the national middle, almost six in ten households fall in the lowest income group, and the share of high incomes is less than half of what is usual. Those three together, plus property values below the median, produce the 3.6 for wealth & income. Here it is not one component doing the work but all four.
Against that stands a 9.6 for families. The primary school is round the corner and four in ten households have children — that is the combination that carries such a figure, regardless of how the neighbourhood stands financially.
The greenery is better than expected too: more than six in ten square metres within three hundred metres are green, against well over half nationally, and traffic noise stays around the median. That is where the 5.0 for quiet & nature comes from — mid-table, but in a densely built city an exception.
- no. 6,145 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 67 of 97 in Haarlem
How Professorenbuurt scores
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Is Professorenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Professorenbuurt comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 35 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
Professorenbuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,345 — 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 Professorenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Professorenbuurt comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Professorenbuurt?
In Professorenbuurt the police recorded 35 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Professorenbuurt calculated?
Professorenbuurt scores 6.5 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 Professorenbuurt 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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