neighbourhood in Leiderdorp
Oranjewijk
1,740 residents · postal code 2351 · Part of Wijk 01, Leiderdorp
Everything for children close by, and little room
The GP in Oranjewijk is more than two kilometres away and the station further still — that pushes the amenities pillar down to 6.9, while the supermarket, school and restaurant are simply around the corner. It is the only pillar on which this neighbourhood falls below the national average.
The rest stands out well. Wealth & income lands on 9.2 and it holds across the board: property values above the national median, more high incomes than usual, fewer low ones, no registered social assistance and hardly any vacancy. Of the offence types, violence, burglary and property crime are below the national figure and vandalism sits exactly on it. Where it chafes is quiet & nature: a 5.0 in a densely built neighbourhood with less greenery within three hundred metres than is usual nationally.
- no. 352 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 18 in Leiderdorp
How Oranjewijk scores
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Is Oranjewijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oranjewijk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oranjewijk 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.
In 2025, 27 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
Oranjewijk has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,718 — 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 Oranjewijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oranjewijk comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oranjewijk 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 Oranjewijk?
In Oranjewijk the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Oranjewijk calculated?
Oranjewijk scores 9.8 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 Oranjewijk 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Leiderdorp.
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