neighbourhood in Leiden

Raadsherenbuurt

880 residents · postal code 2334 · Part of Boerhaavedistrict, Leiden

Top 1% in the Netherlands

Well-off, and comfortable across the board

The tree canopy in Raadsherenbuurt covers three times what is usual nationally, and greenery within three hundred metres is above the median too. Even so, quiet & nature stalls at 7.0, the lowest score in this neighbourhood — density and noise offset what the greenery delivers.

That is a luxury problem in a neighbourhood with an overall score of 10.0. Wealth & income, a 9.8, rests on property values at almost twice the national median and a share of high incomes more than twice above it; no social assistance is registered. The one component that deviates is property crime, which is above the national median here while violence, burglary and vandalism stay far below — things go missing, but that is a different kind of insecurity from the street.

no. 17 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 1 of 53 in Leiden

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Is Raadsherenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Raadsherenbuurt comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

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

Total crime

28.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

14.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 37 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

0.3 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

0.9 km

Café

1.2 km

Library

1.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 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

€ 768,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

45%

Low incomes

29%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

83%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

82%

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

2,042 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

64%

Trees nearby

27%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,074

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

0.4 km

Households with children

32%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4519%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,042 — less 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 Raadsherenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Raadsherenbuurt comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 8.7. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 28 records per 1,000, 0.8 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Raadsherenbuurt?

In Raadsherenbuurt the police recorded 37 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Raadsherenbuurt calculated?

Raadsherenbuurt 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 Raadsherenbuurt 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.