neighbourhood in Haarlem
Stedenbuurt-west
2,800 residents · postal code 2034 · Part of Europawijk, Haarlem
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
What disappears in Stedenbuurt-west is property. Theft and vandalism sit above the national middle, violence and burglary below it — the profile of a densely built city neighbourhood where a lot happens on the street, not of one where evenings turn risky. The 5.9 for safety does not convey that distinction, because it counts reported offences only.
The sharpest contrast lies elsewhere. On families the neighbourhood scores a 9.6, almost entirely because the primary school is a few hundred metres away and that distance carries the most weight. At the same time wealth & income is a 3.6: property values sit below the national middle, high incomes are rare, low incomes are not, and the social assistance rate is a multiple of the Dutch median.
That is the core of this neighbourhood for anyone looking here: schooling, shops and care are all a few minutes' walk away, and the people using them have considerably less to spend than the average Dutch resident.
- no. 3,977 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 53 of 97 in Haarlem
How Stedenbuurt-west scores
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Is Stedenbuurt-west a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stedenbuurt-west comes out at 29 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, 102 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
Stedenbuurt-west has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,456 — 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 Stedenbuurt-west a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stedenbuurt-west comes out at 29 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 Stedenbuurt-west?
In Stedenbuurt-west the police recorded 102 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Stedenbuurt-west calculated?
Stedenbuurt-west scores 7.7 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 Stedenbuurt-west 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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