neighbourhood in Leiderdorp

Leyhof

2,405 residents · postal code 2353 · Part of Wijk 02, Leiderdorp

Top 11% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

Leyhof combines a 9.2 for safety with a families score that clearly lags behind it, and the latter has one clear cause: the primary school is more than a kilometre away. Distance to schooling and childcare is the heaviest part of the families pillar, so four in ten households with children cannot lift that 7.1.

On safety, what stands out is how even the picture is. None of the offence types rises above the national median; burglary sits exactly on it. That is something else than a neighbourhood where a single type drags down the statistics.

The supermarket is three hundred metres away, the station almost five kilometres. Anyone living here without a car notices that difference every working day; the 6.7 for amenities sums up those two extremes.

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no. 5 of 18 in Leiderdorp

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Is Leyhof a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Leyhof comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Leyhof is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

13.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

3.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 33 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

0.3 km

GP practice

1.4 km

Train station

4.9 km

Restaurant

1.4 km

Hospital

3.1 km

Café

3.2 km

Library

2.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.0 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

€ 537,000

Welfare recipients

12.5 per 1,000

High incomes

28%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

76%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

76%

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

5,895 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

61%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,331

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

1.2 km

Households with children

39%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.0 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Leyhof has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 36%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4516%
NL median 22%
45–6536%
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
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,895 — 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 Leyhof a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Leyhof comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Leyhof is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Leyhof?

In Leyhof the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Leyhof calculated?

Leyhof 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 Leyhof 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.