neighbourhood in Haarlem
Schrijversbuurt
2,110 residents · postal code 2025 · Part of Delftwijk, Haarlem
Everything close by, little space
Property crime accounts for more than half of all recorded offences in the Schrijversbuurt, well over double the national level for that category. Violence sits close to the national median and burglary barely above it. Reading the 3.6 for safety as a description of the street would be a mistake: this is above all about belongings.
The 2.7 for quiet & nature is sharper. The sound level is nearly nine decibels above the national median, in one of the most densely built parts of Haarlem. Against that stands a 9.7 for amenities — supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within half a kilometre. It is the same coin: living close together buys proximity and noise together.
More than a third of residents are over sixty-five and most households are single-person, while the bulk of the housing was built after 2000.
- no. 11,139 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 93 of 97 in Haarlem
How Schrijversbuurt scores
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Is Schrijversbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schrijversbuurt comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schrijversbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 112 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
Schrijversbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+36%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,466 — 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 Schrijversbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schrijversbuurt comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schrijversbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Schrijversbuurt?
In Schrijversbuurt the police recorded 112 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Schrijversbuurt calculated?
Schrijversbuurt scores 3.6 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 Schrijversbuurt 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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