neighbourhood in Leiden
Burgemeesterswijk
1,930 residents · postal code 2313 · Part of Roodenburgerdistrict, Leiden
Well-off, and comfortable across the board
An overall score of 9.9 is rare, and in Burgemeesterswijk it comes from four strong pillars at once rather than one outlier. Wealth & income stands at 9.8, and it is supported across the board: property values at almost twice the national median, a share of high incomes more than twice above it, and no registered social assistance.
The weakest figure is safety, a 7.2, and weak is the wrong word for it: violence sits exactly on the national median, property crime just above it, burglary and vandalism below. It is an ordinary urban picture in a neighbourhood that is ordinary nowhere else. What the table does not show is that the families pillar here rests on more than distance — school and GP are around the corner, but the share of households with children is also above the national picture.
- no. 95 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 53 in Leiden
How Burgemeesterswijk scores
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Is Burgemeesterswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Burgemeesterswijk comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 52 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
Burgemeesterswijk has strikingly few residents aged 25 to 45: 15%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4515%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,910 — 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 Burgemeesterswijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Burgemeesterswijk comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Burgemeesterswijk?
In Burgemeesterswijk the police recorded 52 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Burgemeesterswijk calculated?
Burgemeesterswijk scores 9.9 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 Burgemeesterswijk 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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