neighbourhood in Haarlem
Roemer Visscherbuurt
2,425 residents · postal code 2026 · Part of Vondelkwartier, Haarlem
Everything for children close by, and little room
A 9.8 for families next to a 3.1 for quiet & nature: Roemer Visscherbuurt is the city in miniature. The primary school is three hundred metres away and many households have children, while more than eleven thousand people live here per square kilometre and ambient noise is above the national middle.
The 6.2 for wealth & income is the most mixed of the five. Property value is well above the national median and vacancy far below it, but the share of low incomes is higher than nationally and social assistance more than double. High house prices and tight incomes sit side by side in the same streets.
Safety comes out at 7.4, with violence and theft both below the national median. Only vandalism sits slightly above.
- no. 1,803 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 38 of 97 in Haarlem
How Roemer Visscherbuurt scores
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Is Roemer Visscherbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roemer Visscherbuurt 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, 56 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
The age profile of Roemer Visscherbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,736 — 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 Roemer Visscherbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roemer Visscherbuurt 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 Roemer Visscherbuurt?
In Roemer Visscherbuurt the police recorded 56 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 Roemer Visscherbuurt calculated?
Roemer Visscherbuurt scores 9.0 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 Roemer Visscherbuurt 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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