neighbourhood in Haarlem
Van Zeggelenbuurt
2,345 residents · postal code 2032 · Part of Amsterdamsewijk, Haarlem
Everything close by, little space
Almost twelve thousand people on every square kilometre, no water and a share of green under two-thirds of the national middle: the 2.7 for quiet & nature in the Van Zeggelenbuurt is fully explained before noise even comes up, which is only slightly above the median.
That density does produce the 9.7 for amenities. Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within six hundred metres, and that also lifts the families pillar to 8.4 — the school being its heaviest component, while only fifteen percent of residents are under fifteen.
Wealth & income stalls at 6.1. The property value is just above the median and a quarter of households are in the highest income group, but the social assistance rate is almost three times above the national middle. That is the component holding the score down.
- no. 3,644 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 49 of 97 in Haarlem
How Van Zeggelenbuurt scores
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Is Van Zeggelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Van Zeggelenbuurt comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 65 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
Van Zeggelenbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,742 — 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 Van Zeggelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Van Zeggelenbuurt comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Van Zeggelenbuurt?
In Van Zeggelenbuurt the police recorded 65 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Van Zeggelenbuurt calculated?
Van Zeggelenbuurt scores 7.9 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 Van Zeggelenbuurt 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haarlem.
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