neighbourhood in Haarlem
Soendabuurt
2,435 residents · postal code 2022 · Part of Indischewijk, Haarlem
Everything for children close by, and little room
A 10 for families and a 5.2 for safety in the same streets: Soendabuurt shows how differently two pillars can look at one place. The primary school is around the corner and many households have children, while reported offences run at almost double the national middle.
That high figure consists almost entirely of property crime, which here is more than three times the national median. Violence and vandalism barely exceed the national middle, and burglary stays below it.
The 3.6 for quiet & nature comes from the other side of that same location: greenery in the three hundred metres around it falls well below the national median and the building density is high. Wanting supermarket, restaurant and school within walking distance costs you space.
- no. 676 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 21 of 97 in Haarlem
How Soendabuurt scores
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Is Soendabuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Soendabuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Soendabuurt 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, 147 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
Soendabuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 22%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,242 — 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 Soendabuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Soendabuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Soendabuurt 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 Soendabuurt?
In Soendabuurt the police recorded 147 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Soendabuurt calculated?
Soendabuurt 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 Soendabuurt 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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