neighbourhood in Leiden

Professorenwijk-West

2,930 residents · postal code 2313 · Part of Roodenburgerdistrict, Leiden

Top 11% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

The number of reported offences in Professorenwijk-West is well above the national median, and yet this is not a place where you would rather stay in of an evening. The breakdown shows why: property offences run at about three times the national level, while violence stays at barely more than half that median and burglary below it. Things go missing here; that is different from an unsafe street.

Wealth & income comes out at an 8.0, and that is almost, but not entirely, across the board. Property value, higher and lower incomes and vacancy all four point the right way; the social assistance rate alone is above the median.

With the station four hundred metres away and the primary school eight hundred, this Leiden neighbourhood reaches an overall 9.2. What lags is quiet & nature: noise is above the national median and greenery below it.

no. 1,419 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 8 of 53 in Leiden

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Is Professorenwijk-West a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

40.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

28.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 165 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

0.4 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

3.9 km

Café

1.0 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 518,000

Welfare recipients

13.7 per 1,000

High incomes

38%

Low incomes

30%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

68%

Social housing

24%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

59%

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

10,126 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

45%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,182

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.5 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

0.8 km

Households with children

36%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Professorenwijk-West has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,126 — 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 Professorenwijk-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Professorenwijk-West comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Professorenwijk-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Professorenwijk-West?

In Professorenwijk-West the police recorded 165 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Professorenwijk-West calculated?

Professorenwijk-West scores 9.2 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 Professorenwijk-West 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.