neighbourhood in Leiden

Academiewijk

1,895 residents · postal code 2311 · Part of Binnenstad-Zuid, Leiden

Bottom 26% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Three quarters of households in Academiewijk consist of one person and barely one in twenty has children. That is where the 4.7 for families comes from, with distance playing no part — the primary school is six hundred metres away, so the score lies in who lives here.

Safety follows a pattern of its own. Burglary here is almost four times above the national median and property crime well above it, while violence sits exactly on the median; the difference from the national picture lies entirely in what goes missing or gets damaged. The wealth & income pillar hangs in the middle at 5.2, and that is misleadingly precise: property values are well above the national median, but more than half of households are on a low income. Two opposing signals cancelling each other out in a single score.

no. 9,685 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 34 of 53 in Leiden

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Is Academiewijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Academiewijk comes out at 35 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.

Total crime

35.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.3 per 1,000

Property crime

16.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 99 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.7 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 486,000

Welfare recipients

10.6 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

52%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

31%

Social housing

31%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

32%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

11,314 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

29%

Trees nearby

Water share

15%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

5,418

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.6 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Academiewijk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 38%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–154%
NL median 14%
15–2538%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6516%
NL median 28%
65+12%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
75% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,314 — 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 Academiewijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Academiewijk comes out at 35 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 Academiewijk?

In Academiewijk the police recorded 99 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (35 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 Academiewijk calculated?

Academiewijk scores 4.4 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 Academiewijk 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.