neighbourhood in Haarlem
Stationsbuurt
2,280 residents · postal code 2011 · Part of Oude Stad, Haarlem
Everything close by, safety lags
The crime figure in the Stationsbuurt is at more than six times the national middle, and seven in ten records are property crime. Burglary, by contrast, stays below the median. This is the crime of passers-by, not of homes — although violence here is also far above the national middle, so the picture is not entirely innocent.
The 9.7 for amenities and the 3.4 for safety come from the same location. Station, restaurant, GP and supermarket are all within a kilometre, and that concentration of visitors is exactly what drives the crime figure up.
Wealth & income comes out at 7.6, carried by a property value far above the national median. Two components run against it: vacancy is well above the middle and so is the social assistance rate. There is hardly any greenery and the sound level is far above the median, which pulls the quiet & nature pillar down.
- no. 5,885 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 65 of 97 in Haarlem
How Stationsbuurt scores
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Is Stationsbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stationsbuurt comes out at 153 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Stationsbuurt 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, 806 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
Stationsbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4541%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,934 — 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 Stationsbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stationsbuurt comes out at 153 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Stationsbuurt 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 Stationsbuurt?
In Stationsbuurt the police recorded 806 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (153 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 Stationsbuurt calculated?
Stationsbuurt scores 6.6 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 Stationsbuurt 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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