neighbourhood in Leidschendam-Voorburg
Voorburg Oud zuid
2,920 residents · postal code 2271 · Part of Voorburg Oud, Leidschendam-Voorburg
Everything close by, safety lags
With a 9.9, Voorburg Oud zuid ranks among the hundred best-served neighbourhoods in the country: supermarket, GP, restaurant and station are all within a kilometre. Against that stands a 4.0 for safety, and that deserves explaining.
Property offences run at more than double the national median and criminal damage is above it too, but it is too easy to dismiss this as a place where only goods go missing — violence here is above the national level as well. Only domestic burglary stays below.
The quiet & nature pillar shows how differently its parts can fall. Greenery within three hundred metres sits exactly on the national median and the tree canopy well above it, but noise is considerably above and that holds the score at a 5.4. Almost a third of residents are over sixty-five.
- no. 2,662 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 13 of 42 in Leidschendam-Voorburg
How Voorburg Oud zuid scores
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Is Voorburg Oud zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Voorburg Oud zuid comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Voorburg Oud zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 213 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
Voorburg Oud zuid has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,210 — 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 Voorburg Oud zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Voorburg Oud zuid comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Voorburg Oud zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Voorburg Oud zuid?
In Voorburg Oud zuid the police recorded 213 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Voorburg Oud zuid calculated?
Voorburg Oud zuid scores 8.5 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 Voorburg Oud zuid 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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