neighbourhood in Leiden

Roomburg

2,900 residents · postal code 2314 · Part of Roodenburgerdistrict, Leiden

Top 12% in the Netherlands

Well-off, but not spacious

Roomburg was largely built after 2000, and that shows in the property value, which sits well above the national middle value and almost single-handedly explains the 8.8 for wealth and income. Social assistance and income distribution here depart far less from the Dutch picture than that one figure suggests.

The safety score of 7.1 deserves explaining, because the total number of reported offences is slightly above the national middle. The breakdown shows where that comes from: property offences sit exactly on the Dutch level, burglaries far below it, and only violence is somewhat above. Of the four types together, then, none really drags the score down.

Quiet and nature stops at 6.2, with a noise level noticeably above the national middle. And although this is a neighbourhood with many children, the primary school is more than one and a half kilometres away — the longest daily distance these figures name.

no. 1,537 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 10 of 53 in Leiden

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Is Roomburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Roomburg comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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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

26.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

9.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 107 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

0.7 km

Train station

3.1 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

2.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.5 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

€ 614,000

Welfare recipients

10.3 per 1,000

High incomes

33%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

74%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

54%

Built after 2000

85%

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

3,277 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,571

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

1.6 km

Households with children

42%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Roomburg has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4516%
NL median 22%
45–6531%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,277 — 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 Roomburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Roomburg comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Roomburg?

In Roomburg the police recorded 107 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Roomburg calculated?

Roomburg scores 9.1 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 Roomburg 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.