district in Den Haag
Waldeck
Waldeck has 5 neighbourhoods with 17,665 residents in total.
Waldeck is a post-war residential district in the south-west of The Hague, five neighbourhoods and just over 17,000 residents from Nieuw Waldeck to Rosenburg. Amenities reach 7.9, but the other pillars stay below the median: quiet and nature 6.3, wealth and income 3.7 and safety 4.6. The overall comes to 5.4. A spaciously laid-out but somewhat dated estate on the edge of the city.
no. 21 of the 43 districts of Den Haag
Short answer: Waldeck scores 5.4 as a district of Den Haag, no. 21 of the 43 districts of Den Haag. Its strongest neighbourhood is Componistenbuurt (7.3), the worst Rosenburg (3.3). The district has 5 neighbourhoods with 17,665 residents in total.
Key figures for Waldeck
- residents
- 17,665
- neighbourhoods
- 5
- km² of land
- 1.8
How Waldeck scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 788 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
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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
Waldeck has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+32%
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
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,266 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Waldeck, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Waldeck
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Neighbourhoods in Waldeck
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