neighbourhood in Leiden
Slaaghwijk
4,365 residents · postal code 2317 · Part of Merenwijkdistrict, Leiden
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Slaaghwijk records exactly the national median number of offences and still reaches a 6.6 for safety. That is because the heaviest components come out well: burglary runs at less than half the median and property offences below it. Only violence rises slightly above.
The wealth & income pillar is another story, at a 3.1. The social assistance rate here is almost eleven times the national median, more than half of households belong to the lowest income group and eight per cent to the highest. Only vacancy sits below the national median.
Not a single home in this neighbourhood was built after 2000. That the families pillar still produces an 8.9 comes from the primary school seven hundred metres away and from the almost four in ten households with children.
- no. 7,594 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 28 of 53 in Leiden
How Slaaghwijk scores
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Is Slaaghwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Slaaghwijk comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 136 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
Slaaghwijk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 19%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2519%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,362 — 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 Slaaghwijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Slaaghwijk comes out at 24 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 Slaaghwijk?
In Slaaghwijk the police recorded 136 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Slaaghwijk calculated?
Slaaghwijk scores 5.6 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 Slaaghwijk 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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