neighbourhood in Haarlem
Spijkerboorbuurt
2,055 residents · postal code 2037 · Part of Meerwijk, Haarlem
Everything close by, little space
The number of reported offences in the Spijkerboorbuurt is only slightly above the national median, and yet safety scores 4.8. That comes from the composition: property crime and vandalism stay below the national median, but violence is recorded here almost twice as often. Violence is the heaviest component of that pillar, which is why the figure drops further than the total suggests.
The 4.1 for wealth & income is unambiguous. The share of households with a high income is far below the national median, the share with a low income far above it, property value below the median and social assistance a multiple of it. Only vacancy is low; almost nothing here stands empty. Against that stands an 8.7 for families, which rests mainly on the short distance to school and childcare.
- no. 7,913 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 78 of 97 in Haarlem
How Spijkerboorbuurt scores
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Is Spijkerboorbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spijkerboorbuurt comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 67 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 Spijkerboorbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,365 — 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 Spijkerboorbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Spijkerboorbuurt comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Spijkerboorbuurt?
In Spijkerboorbuurt the police recorded 67 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Spijkerboorbuurt calculated?
Spijkerboorbuurt scores 5.5 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 Spijkerboorbuurt 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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