Renting a Home in Rijswijk
Five minutes by train to The Hague, five minutes to Delft. A self-governing municipality that refuses to become a suburb.
Rijswijk is not a district of The Hague, although many people think it is. It is a municipality with its own village center, its own facilities, and its own character. With almost 62,000 inhabitants (2026) and about 29,000 homes, more than half of which are rental properties, Rijswijk has a structurally tight rental market. Those considering renting a home in Rijswijk compete with Hague commuters looking for cheaper housing, Delft professionals leaving the student city behind, and families seeking more square meters than the center of The Hague offers.
Houses in Rijswijk
Oud-Rijswijk: The Village Center That Survived Urbanization
While Rijswijk urbanized in all directions, the core around Herenstraat remained recognizable as a village. Monumental buildings, a church, narrow streets with catering and shops. Oud-Rijswijk has the kind of atmosphere you won't find in a Hague neighborhood: well-arranged, village-like, but with a tram stop around the corner.
The homes here are a mix of townhouses, upper floors, and infill projects. The supply in the free sector is limited, precisely because residents stay for a long time. Those who find a rental home here live within walking distance of everything Rijswijk has to offer and can take the tram to The Hague Center within ten minutes.
Cromvliet and Leeuwendaal: Pre-War Tranquility
These two neighborhoods are named after former estates and were built in the 1920s and 1930s. The architecture reveals this: 1930s style with portico apartments, single-family homes, and wide avenues. By the late 1930s, 18,000 people already lived here.
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Cromvliet and Leeuwendaal are the neighborhoods where Rijswijk most resembles itself. No Hague allure, no Delft student culture. Just solid pre-war neighborhoods with a high percentage of owner-occupied homes and an occasional rental house becoming available. The streets are quiet, the front gardens well-maintained, the supermarket within cycling distance. It is the Rijswijk from before the expansions, and you can tell by the scale.
Te Werve: Post-War Living Next to an Estate
The Te Werve district owes its name to the eponymous estate located in its midst. Portico flats and terraced houses from the 1950s and 1960s stand here alongside park-like greenery dating back to the eighteenth century. De Put, an excavated sand plain that emerged around 1910 due to sand extraction, is a unique landscape element within the estate.
For tenants, Te Werve offers a combination difficult to find elsewhere in the region: post-war homes with low balconies and small gardens, a stone's throw from a historic park. The homes are not large, but the surroundings compensate. On Sunday morning, you can walk from your front door into the Elsenburgerbos within five minutes.
De Bomenbuurt: The Neighborhood Where No One Wants to Leave
Street names named after trees, terraced houses from the 1950s and 1960s, and residents who have sometimes lived there for more than ten years. De Bomenbuurt is one of those neighborhoods that on paper has little spectacular, but in practice consistently tops resident satisfaction lists. Quiet, green, child-friendly.
The rental housing supply here is scarce, precisely because turnover is low. Single-family homes with gardens dominate. Those who manage to secure an available rental home here also know why it so rarely becomes available.
Steenvoorde: The Great Post-War Expansion
Steenvoorde was built from 1967 onwards. During construction, remains of a Roman house were found, but the district itself is thoroughly twentieth-century: system building, portico flats, gallery flats, and terraced houses in the pattern of the 1960s and 1970s. It is Rijswijk's largest post-war expansion district.
In Steenvoorde, rental housing becomes available more often than in the older neighborhoods. The homes are functional, the floor plans more spacious than in Te Werve or Cromvliet. The In de Bogaard shopping center is located on the edge of the district and provides for daily necessities. Not a district with charm, but a district with square meters.
Houses Price Breakdown in Rijswijk
| Bedrooms | Average | Median | Price Range | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | €3,250 | €3,250 | €3,250 - €3,250 | 1 |
4+ | €3,895 | €3,895 | €3,895 - €3,895 | 1 |
RijswijkBuiten: Three Thousand Homes on Former Greenhouses
In the place where greenhouses recently stood, RijswijkBuiten is emerging: more than 3,500 new homes between the center of Rijswijk and Delft. The district is divided into Sion (first phase, with primary school, sports hall, and health center), Parkrijk (around the Wilhelminapark, with Montessori school), and Pasgeld.
The homes are gas-free, with heat pumps and solar panels. Predominantly single-family homes with gardens, but also apartments and semi-detached houses. RijswijkBuiten attracts young families who want new construction without having to move to a Vinex location on the edge of the Randstad. The tram to The Hague and Delft stops on the edge of the district.
In the free sector rental, the supply in RijswijkBuiten is growing. Not all homes are for sale. Various investors rent out new construction in the free sector here, making it one of the few places in Rijswijk where the supply will increase rather than stagnate in the coming years.
Estates as Green Backbone
Rijswijk owes its green character to a series of historic country estates along the Vliet: Te Werve, Cromvliet, Leeuwendaal. The estates have partly become public parks. The Elsenburgerbos, Landgoed Te Werve with De Put, and the green banks of the Vliet give the municipality more greenery than you would expect from an urbanized place between two cities.
Five Minutes to Two Cities
Rijswijk Station is on the The Hague HS–Delft–Rotterdam line. Five minutes by train to The Hague Hollands Spoor, five to seven minutes to Delft. Tram 1 runs right through Rijswijk from Scheveningen to Delft Tanthof. This dual orientation to two cities makes Rijswijk different from a typical commuter municipality.
The Peace of Rijswijk
In 1697, the peace treaty that ended the Nine Years' War was signed in Rijswijk. It is a footnote in history books, but for Rijswijk itself, a piece of identity. The Peace Bust in Oud-Rijswijk commemorates that this was once the scene of European diplomacy.
Between Two Cities, But Neither One
Rijswijk is sandwiched between The Hague and Delft. To the north, it seamlessly merges into The Hague neighborhoods. To the south, RijswijkBuiten almost touches Delft. Yet, Rijswijk does not feel like an in-between area. The village center of Oud-Rijswijk, the pre-war neighborhoods, the estates along the Vliet give the municipality its own layer. It is not The Hague-light and not Delft-without-university. It is Rijswijk.
For tenants, this means: you live in a municipality with its own facilities, its own greenery, and its own pace, but you can be in the center of two major cities within ten minutes by tram or train. Keeping pay slips, employer's statements, and ID on hand is not an unnecessary precaution. In a market where homes are taken within days, preparation makes all the difference. Set up a search query on our platform and receive a notification as soon as a home that matches what you are looking for becomes available.
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