neighbourhood in Leiden

Tuinstadwijk

3,785 residents · postal code 2313 · Part of Roodenburgerdistrict, Leiden

Top 12% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

The supermarket, the GP, the primary school and a restaurant are all within half a kilometre in Tuinstadwijk, and the railway station is barely further. That accumulation produces a 9.9 for amenities and, at the same time, the 3.5 for quiet & nature: the very density that puts everything close by leaves no room for greenery and keeps noise above the national median.

The crime figure is above the national median, but its make-up is not that of an unsafe street. Violence, burglary and vandalism all stay below the middle; only property crime is above it. What happens here happens mainly to belongings.

The 8.7 for families leans on those same short distances rather than on the number of children — that is at the national level here.

no. 1,518 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 9 of 53 in Leiden

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Is Tuinstadwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Tuinstadwijk comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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

28.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

10.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 148 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.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

0.7 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

3.4 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.3 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

€ 487,000

Welfare recipients

21.1 per 1,000

High incomes

26%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

49%

Social housing

40%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

68%

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

10,973 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

36%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

5,388

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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

28%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+16%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,973 — 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 Tuinstadwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Tuinstadwijk comes out at 29 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 7.3. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 29 records per 1,000, 1.7 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 Tuinstadwijk?

In Tuinstadwijk the police recorded 148 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Tuinstadwijk calculated?

Tuinstadwijk 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 Tuinstadwijk 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.