neighbourhood in Leidschendam-Voorburg
Duivenvoorde
2,105 residents · postal code 2261 · Part of De Zijde / Duivenvoorde / Park Veursehout, Leidschendam-Voorburg
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Four in ten residents of Duivenvoorde are over sixty-five, and the share of children stays below the national median. The primary school is eight hundred metres away, so the 5.0 for families comes not from distance but from who lives here — one of the few places where that can be said with confidence.
The quiet & nature pillar reaches 7.0 despite a sound level a good five decibels above the national median. The tree canopy is more than twice as dense as usual and the share of greenery around is well above the median; those two offset the noise in the score, if not in the ear.
Wealth & income is where it jars: property values stay below the median and the social assistance rate runs at over three times the national level, while the income spread stays close to the middle.
- no. 6,277 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 27 of 42 in Leidschendam-Voorburg
How Duivenvoorde scores
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Is Duivenvoorde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Duivenvoorde comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Duivenvoorde 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, 34 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
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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
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Who lives here
Duivenvoorde has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+40%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,391 — 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 Duivenvoorde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Duivenvoorde comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Duivenvoorde 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 Duivenvoorde?
In Duivenvoorde the police recorded 34 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Duivenvoorde calculated?
Duivenvoorde scores 6.4 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 Duivenvoorde 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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