The average home in the Statenkwartier was valued at 714,000 euro in the 2025 WOZ assessment, against a city average of 383,000.
That single number explains most of what people notice about the district: the width of the streets, the quiet, the absence of anything resembling a rough edge, and the fact that almost nobody moves here on a first Dutch salary.
What it actually is
The Statenkwartier was laid out on dune land bought from Princess Sophie in 1895 and built almost entirely between 1890 and 1915.
The streets are named after seventeenth-century Holland politicians, which is where the name comes from, and the neighbouring Geuzenkwartier takes its names from the fighters of the Eighty Years’ War.
It is art nouveau at scale, with wide pavements, gabled brick terraces, stained glass in the doors and large square-ish junctions rather than the tight corners of the older city.
Since 1996 the whole thing, Geuzenkwartier included, has been a rijksbeschermd stadsgezicht, a nationally protected townscape.
In practice that means the exteriors are frozen and your renovation plans need permission.
Seventy-nine per cent of the housing stock predates 1945.
Seventy per cent of it is flats, because the classic Hague terrace here is divided into a benedenwoning and a bovenwoning, so a whole-house purchase is rarer than the street frontages suggest.
Who lives there
The district proper had 10,241 residents in 2026, in 5,090 households, at an average household size of exactly two.
That average conceals two populations that barely overlap: older Dutch households who bought decades ago, and international families on a posting.
The origin split in 2025 was 47% Dutch, 30% from elsewhere in Europe and 23% from outside Europe.
For comparison, the city as a whole runs 39% Dutch, 18% European and 43% non-European.
The Statenkwartier is not less international than The Hague.
It is internationally different, with a far heavier European and North American presence and a much lighter one from the city’s Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese communities.
Average income per resident was 58,000 euro in 2024 and 75,800 euro per income earner, against 35,200 and 43,900 for the city.
That is the most reliable single indicator of who your neighbours will be.
The money
Sixty per cent of homes are owner-occupied and 39% are rented, but only 3% of the total is social housing.
The other 36% is private landlords, which is unusually high and is precisely why the district works for internationals: a large private rental stock, lettable at short notice, without a waiting list.
It also means rents move with the market and not with a points system.
Expect to be competing with diplomatic housing budgets.
Missions and international institutions place staff here by habit, and a landlord choosing between a three-year embassy contract and your first Dutch employment contract is not going to agonise over it.
The practical answer is to be ready before you view, which means the documents listed in renting in The Hague and an agent who works this specific district.
Estate agents in The Hague vary enormously in which postcodes they actually cover.
If you are buying, the protected townscape status matters financially.
Windows, front doors and roofs are constrained, energy retrofits are harder than in a 1960s block, and the survey on a 1905 house should be done by someone who knows Hague foundations.
The mechanics are in buying a home in The Hague as a foreigner.
Getting about
Tram 1 runs from Scheveningen Noorderstrand down through the district’s eastern edge towards the centre, Hollands Spoor and on to Delft.
Trams 16 and 17 both terminate in the Statenkwartier itself and run into the centre and out to Wateringen.
Den Haag Centraal is a ride of roughly a quarter of an hour, and the line detail is in The Hague trams and buses.
The beach is the real advantage.
Scheveningen’s southern end is about twenty minutes on foot from the middle of the district, and the Westduinpark dunes are closer than that.
You are at the sea without living at the sea, which is the whole trick of the place and the reason it prices above Scheveningen itself.
Parking is permit-controlled, and the Statenkwartier’s zone is one of the harshest in the city: charges apply Monday to Sunday from 13.00 to midnight, at 2.75 euro an hour.
Seven days, including Sundays, until twelve.
That matters less if you hold a resident’s permit and a great deal if your visitors do not.
Costs and the application route are in parking permits in The Hague.
Saturday, and the rest of the week
The Frederik Hendriklaan, universally “De Fred”, is the spine.
It is a long, genuinely functional shopping street: butchers, fishmongers, a cheese shop, bakeries, chemists, opticians, several cafes with pavement seating and a Saturday crowd that is mostly people buying dinner.
It is one of the few streets in The Hague where the independent retail has survived intact, and it is the single best argument for living here.
What it is not is nightlife.
The Statenkwartier goes quiet early.
There is no bar strip, no late licence worth the name, and a Saturday night here means dinner and a walk home.
If you want to fall out of a pub at one in the morning you are in the wrong postcode, and should read the Zeeheldenkwartier instead.
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Museon and the Omniversum sit on the Stadhouderslaan at the district’s inland edge, and the OPCW headquarters is a short walk away, which is part of why the international population clusters here at all.
More of that is in the international organisations.
The honest drawbacks
It is expensive and it is dull, and those are the same fact seen from two angles.
People who love the Statenkwartier love it for the quiet; people who leave it leave because nothing happens.
At 41 registered crimes per thousand residents in 2025 against 69 for the city, it is measurably safe, and it feels safer than that.
The housing is beautiful and old.
Old means single-flue chimneys, cold north rooms, sash windows that rattle in a westerly and energy labels that will make you flinch.
The wind off the sea is the constant here, not the rain, as set out in the weather and the wind.
And the social entry cost is high.
This is a district of established households with settled circles, which suits families with children at international schools in The Hague and is harder work for a single arrival.
If that is you, how to actually make friends here is the more useful page.
Compared against the alternatives, the Statenkwartier is what you choose when you want space, sea air and calm, and you can pay for all three.
If two of those three would do, which district suits which life sets it against the other ten.
Sources
- AlleCijfers, buurt Statenkwartier (gemeente Den Haag), drawing on CBS and Kadaster data: 10,241 inhabitants in 2026; 5,090 households and average household size 2.0 in 2025; origin 47% Netherlands, 30% Europe, 23% outside Europe in 2025; 5,190 dwellings of which 60% owner-occupied, 3% corporation rental and 36% private rental in 2025; 70% flats and 79% built before 1945 in 2026; average WOZ value 714,000 euro in 2025; average income 58,000 euro per resident and 75,800 euro per earner in 2024; population density 10,208 per km2 in 2025; 422 registered crimes in 2025
- AlleCijfers, wijk Geuzen en Statenkwartier: 14,741 inhabitants in 2026, average WOZ 620,000 euro in 2025, 627 registered crimes in 2025
- AlleCijfers, gemeente Den Haag: 569,468 inhabitants in 2026, average WOZ value 383,000 euro in 2025, average income 35,200 euro per resident in 2024, origin 39% Netherlands, 18% Europe and 43% outside Europe in 2025, 39,343 registered crimes in 2025 or 69 per 1,000 inhabitants
- Gemeente Den Haag, parking maps and charges: the Statenkwartier and Geuzenkwartier zone charges “maandag tot en met zondag van 13.00 tot 24.00 uur; tarief 2,75 euro per uur”, as published on denhaag.nl and retrieved in September 2026
- Dutch Wikipedia, Geuzen- en Statenkwartier: built largely between 1890 and 1915 on dune land bought from Princess Sophie in 1895, art nouveau architecture, streets named after seventeenth-century Holland politicians and after the Geuzen, and a rijksbeschermd stadsgezicht since 1996; the Frederik Hendriklaan described as the long shopping street known as De Fred
