neighbourhood in Leiden

Kloosterhof

2,815 residents · postal code 2331 · Part of Stevenshofdistrict, Leiden

Top 27% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Kloosterhof is a neighbourhood where almost every figure sits close to the national middle. The property value is just above the median, the share of households with a high income lies exactly on it, that with a low income too, and three of the four offence types barely deviate. That such a neighbourhood still reaches an 8.0 says something about how skewed the Dutch distribution is: scoring average here means standing above half the country.

What does deviate: the social assistance rate lies at almost twice the national median, and that single item keeps the wealth & income pillar at a 5.9 while the rest of it is steady. A tenth of the surface is water, and together with a tree canopy above the median that still does not produce a high quiet score — density and noise push that pillar down to a 5.6. Station, school and GP are all within a few hundred metres to a kilometre.

no. 3,528 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 16 of 53 in Leiden

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Is Kloosterhof a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kloosterhof comes out at 19 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.

Total crime

18.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

5.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 59 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.2 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

2.4 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

€ 434,000

Welfare recipients

14.2 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

54%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

79%

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

7,880 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

47%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

10%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,558

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 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

0.7 km

Households with children

36%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

2.3 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Kloosterhof looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,880 — 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 Kloosterhof a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kloosterhof comes out at 19 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 Kloosterhof?

In Kloosterhof the police recorded 59 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Kloosterhof calculated?

Kloosterhof scores 8.0 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 Kloosterhof 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.