neighbourhood in Leidschendam-Voorburg
Essesteijn / Dreven
2,170 residents · postal code 2272 · Part of Essesteijn, Leidschendam-Voorburg
Everything close by, safety lags
Almost half the households in Essesteijn / Dreven consist of one person and more than three in ten residents are sixty-five or older. Against that composition the 6.8 for families fits better than it looks: the school is six hundred metres away, but the share of children drags the figure down.
The 4.5 for safety comes almost entirely from theft and criminal damage. The first runs at nearly double the national level, the second at more than double, while violence stays below it and burglary barely above. This is a neighbourhood where things go missing and damage is done, not one where you cross the street differently after dark.
The 6.6 for wealth & income is mixed. Property value lands exactly on the national median and the share of high incomes well above it, but the social assistance rate runs almost double the national middle.
The quiet & nature figure benefits from plenty of greenery and a dense tree canopy, but is held back by noise a good five decibels above the median.
- no. 5,174 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 42 in Leidschendam-Voorburg
How Essesteijn / Dreven scores
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Is Essesteijn / Dreven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Essesteijn / Dreven comes out at 33 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.
In 2025, 94 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
Essesteijn / Dreven has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
5,148 — 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 Essesteijn / Dreven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Essesteijn / Dreven comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Essesteijn / Dreven?
In Essesteijn / Dreven the police recorded 94 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (33 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 Essesteijn / Dreven calculated?
Essesteijn / Dreven scores 7.0 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 Essesteijn / Dreven 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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