neighbourhood in Haarlem
Zuiderhout
1,720 residents · postal code 2012 · Part of Haarlemmerhoutkwartier, Haarlem
Well-off, and comfortable across the board
Zuiderhout ranks among the twenty highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and it traces back to one thing that works through everywhere: property values more than three times the national median. That leaves the wealth & income pillar all but sealed — almost half of households have a high income, nobody receives social assistance, and vacancy stays around the national middle.
The quiet & nature pillar does something rare in a city. At three thousand residents per square kilometre, noise here sits exactly at the national median and tree canopy is almost three times the middle. That yields an 8.6 without the neighbourhood being outside the city at all.
On safety the split is notable: violence at not even half the median, burglary at two thirds, vandalism below, and only property crime above. That last is the lightest component of the pillar, which is why the 8.4 holds. More than four in ten households have children, with the primary school four hundred metres away.
- no. 15 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 97 in Haarlem
How Zuiderhout scores
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Is Zuiderhout a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuiderhout 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, 57 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
Zuiderhout has strikingly few residents aged 25 to 45: 12%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4512%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,016 — 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 Zuiderhout a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuiderhout 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 Zuiderhout?
In Zuiderhout the police recorded 57 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 Zuiderhout calculated?
Zuiderhout scores 10.0 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 Zuiderhout 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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