Two districts inside the same stadsdeel, separated by about a mile of dune, with average WOZ values of 325,000 and 670,000 euro in 2025.
Kijkduin en Ockenburgh is the third most expensive district in this guide.
Loosduinen is among the cheapest.
Nothing else in The Hague splits this sharply over such a short distance.
Loosduinen
Loosduinen was a municipality in its own right from 1811, when Napoleon’s reorganisation created it, until 1 July 1923, when it merged with The Hague voluntarily and on conditions that included infrastructure being built.
That history still shapes local identity, and older residents do not describe themselves as living in The Hague if they can avoid it.
It was market-garden country.
The Loosduinsche Groentenveiling, the vegetable auction, was founded in 1899, and the local nickname Peenbuiker, roughly carrot-belly, comes from the carrot growing that dominated the sandy soil.
The Abdijkerk at Willem III-straat 40 survives from a Cistercian nunnery founded there around 1230 by Floris IV, and is the oldest building in this guide by three centuries.
Most of the old centre went from the 1950s onwards, and what is there now is post-war: 44% of the housing stock dates from 1975 to 1985, which is the single largest period.
Historic buildings survive along the Loosduinse Hoofdstraat, the Burgemeester Hovylaan and Willem III-straat, and they sit among blocks of flats.
17,884 residents in 2026, in 8,535 households, average size 2.0, at a density of 6,646 per square kilometre.
The 2025 origin split was 59% Dutch, 12% from elsewhere in Europe and 29% from outside Europe, with 77% born in the Netherlands, which makes it one of the most Dutch-raised districts on this list.
Average income was 31,600 euro per resident in 2024.
Thirty-nine per cent of homes are social rented, the highest share of any district here after Duindorp, and only 13% is private rental.
Forty-eight per cent is owner-occupied.
That tenure profile is the practical problem for an arriving international: there is very little to rent privately, and the social stock has a waiting list measured in years.
Kijkduin and Ockenburgh
Around 1900 Kijkduin was about the same size as Scheveningen.
The growth that Scheveningen then had simply did not happen here, and the difference between the two coastal resorts today is the consequence of a century of that divergence.
Coastal reinforcement with rubble dunes was not completed until 1968, which is part of why.
The modern resort is small: 3,978 residents in 2026, in 1,870 households, at a population density of 784 per square kilometre.
That last number is the lowest in this guide by a factor of three, and it is the whole appeal.
Most of the district is dune, wood and the Ockenburgh estate, laid out around 1650 by the poet and physician Jacob Westerbaen.
The seafront was rebuilt.
The low old boulevard buildings were replaced by a dozen apartment blocks under the Nieuw Kijkduin project, and 39% of the district’s housing stock now dates from 2015 to 2025.
The boulevard carries shops on the landward side and cafes and restaurants on the beach side.
Average WOZ value is 670,000 euro, income 46,900 euro per resident, 53% owner-occupied and 47% rented.
Bohemen en Meer en Bos, inland of Kijkduin, is the useful middle option: 4,896 residents, 63% owner-occupied, an average WOZ of 363,000 euro in 2025 and a housing stock that is 73% from 1945 to 1965.
It is where you look if Kijkduin prices are out of reach and Loosduinen has nothing to rent.
The money
Loosduinen is one of the genuinely affordable parts of The Hague with houses rather than flats in it.
Thirty-six per cent of homes are not apartments, which is far better than anything inside the ring, and 325,000 euro of average value buys considerably more floor than the same money in the Zeeheldenkwartier.
Kijkduin is a different market altogether.
New coastal apartments at 670,000 euro average are competing with Benoordenhout and the Archipelbuurt for money, and winning on sea view rather than on location.
If you want the coast and can pay properly, this is the quiet alternative to Scheveningen, and it is genuinely quiet: there is no equivalent of the boulevard crowd here.
In both, the rental market is thin and turns over slowly, so start early and register with agents rather than waiting for portals.
Renting in The Hague covers the documents, and estate agents in The Hague who work the western districts are a small and knowable group.
Getting about
Tram 3 runs from Den Haag Centraal out to Loosduinen every ten minutes, and tram 2 terminates at Kraayenstein on the district’s northern side.
Bus 24 runs from Den Haag Centraal all the way to Kijkduin, roughly half an hour end to end, and bus 26 links the Arnold Spoelplein to Kijkduin.
The network and the fares are in The Hague trams and buses.
Half an hour to the centre is the honest figure, and it is the price of everything else.
Most households here run a car, and parking, unusually for The Hague, is not the nightmare it is inside the ring, though the rules still apply and are set out in parking permits in The Hague.
The beach, on the other hand, is at the end of the road.
Westduinpark, the Ockenburgh woods and the Kijkduin sand are all within walking or cycling distance of most of Loosduinen, which is a considerably better daily arrangement than most people who pay Statenkwartier money ever get.
Saturday, and the rest of the week
The Loosduinse Hoofdstraat is the old village high street and still functions as one, with a market, supermarkets, bakers and the practical shops.
It is unpretentious and it does the job.
There is no destination retail and nobody comes from another district to shop here.
Kijkduin’s boulevard is a small resort: a handful of restaurants, a supermarket, beach clubs in season, and a sandy expanse that empties completely between October and April.
In summer it fills with families from across the western districts and the car park is the bottleneck.
It is Scheveningen at a tenth of the volume, and for a certain kind of person that is exactly right.
The full comparison is in Scheveningen and the coast.
Saturday night in either place is dinner and home.
There is no nightlife in this half of the city.
The centre is half an hour each way, which realistically means going out is a planned evening rather than a walk, and the alternatives are in Centrum and the Chinatown end and going out alone in The Hague.
The honest drawbacks
Distance.
This is the far west of The Hague and everything central is a journey.
For a household with school-age children and a car it hardly registers.
For a single international arriving without either, half an hour each way to anything will wear thin by December.
Loosduinen recorded 1,199 offences in 2025, about 67 per thousand residents, just under the city’s 69, so the numbers are ordinary.
Kijkduin’s 322 offences across 3,978 residents come out at about 87 per thousand, which sounds worse than it is: a beach district with a large car park, thousands of summer visitors and very few permanent residents will always score badly per head.
The social entry cost in Loosduinen is real.
A district that is 77% Dutch-born, heavily social-rented and descended from a village that only joined the city in 1923 is welcoming enough and slow to open.
Joining something is the shortcut, and sports clubs and how joining one works here and volunteering in The Hague are the two routes that work.
And Kijkduin is exposed.
It is the windiest inhabited corner of the city, the sand gets everywhere, and the winter months are properly empty.
That is measured rather than impressionistic, and the figures are in the weather and the wind.
For space, green and sea at a price that is not absurd, this half of the city is under-rated.
Which district suits which life weighs it against the other ten.
Sources
- AlleCijfers, wijk Loosduinen (gemeente Den Haag): 17,884 inhabitants in 2026; 8,535 households and average household size 2.0 in 2025; origin 59% Netherlands, 12% Europe, 29% outside Europe in 2025 with 77% born in the Netherlands; 8,751 dwellings with an average WOZ value of 325,000 euro in 2025; 48% owner-occupied, 39% corporation rental, 13% private rental; 64% flats; the largest construction period 1975 to 1985 at 44%; average income 31,600 euro per resident and 38,400 euro per earner in 2024; population density 6,646 per km2; 1,199 registered crimes in 2025, 67 per 1,000 inhabitants; buurten Houtwijk, Kom Loosduinen and Kerketuinen en Zichtenburg
- AlleCijfers, wijk Kijkduin en Ockenburgh: 3,978 inhabitants in 2026; 1,870 households and average household size 1.9 in 2025; origin 61% Netherlands, 21% Europe, 18% outside Europe in 2025; 1,673 dwellings with an average WOZ value of 670,000 euro in 2025; 53% owner-occupied and 47% rented; 57% flats; 39% built between 2015 and 2025 and 21% between 1965 and 1975; average income 46,900 euro per resident and 55,400 euro per earner in 2024; population density 784 per km2; 322 registered crimes in 2025, 87 per 1,000 inhabitants
- AlleCijfers, wijk Bohemen en Meer en Bos: 4,896 inhabitants in 2026; average WOZ value 363,000 euro in 2025; 63% owner-occupied and 37% rented; 73% built between 1945 and 1965; average income 41,800 euro per resident in 2024; 275 registered crimes in 2025
- AlleCijfers, gemeente Den Haag: average WOZ 383,000 euro in 2025, average income 35,200 euro per resident in 2024, 69 registered crimes per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025
- Dutch Wikipedia, Loosduinen: established as an independent municipality in 1811 under Napoleon’s decree, with independence lasting “tot 1 juli 1923” when it merged voluntarily with Den Haag on conditions including infrastructure; a Cistercian nunnery founded around 1230 by Floris IV, of which the Abdijkerk at Willem III-straat 40 survives; the Loosduinsche Groentenveiling founded in 1899 and the local nickname Peenbuiker; much of the old centre demolished from the 1950s, with historic buildings surviving along the Loosduinse Hoofdstraat, Burgemeester Hovylaan and Willem III-straat
- Dutch Wikipedia, Kijkduin (badplaats): the low old boulevard buildings replaced by a dozen apartment blocks under the Nieuw Kijkduin project; a boulevard with shops on the city side and hospitality on the beach side; around 1900 Kijkduin was comparable in size to Scheveningen but “De groei die Scheveningen daarna meemaakte, heeft in Kijkduin echter niet plaatsgevonden”; coastal reinforcement with rubble dunes completed only in 1968; the Ockenburgh estate laid out around 1650 by the poet and physician Jacob Westerbaen
- HTM and DenHaag.com travel information: tram 3 running from Den Haag Centraal to Loosduinen every ten minutes, tram 2 terminating at Kraayenstein, bus 24 running from Den Haag Centraal to Kijkduin in about thirty minutes and bus 26 linking the Arnold Spoelplein with Kijkduin
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