Rent a Home in Voorburg's City Center

Voorburg is not a large city. With over 43,000 inhabitants (2025), it is a compact core in the municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg, directly adjacent to The Hague. Its location determines who lives there: people who want to use The Hague's amenities but prefer the tranquility and scale of a smaller municipality. Voorburg's city center is concentrated along Herenstraat, one of the region's longest historic shopping streets. Renting a home in Voorburg's city center means living within walking distance of everything the core offers, with a train connection to The Hague that takes four minutes.

Forum Hadriani

Voorburg stands on ancient ground. In the first and second centuries AD, Forum Hadriani was located here, the most important Roman settlement north of the Rhine. The city grew along the Fossa Corbulonis, a canal dug around 47 AD between the Rhine and the Meuse. Emperor Hadrian visited the settlement around 121 AD and granted market rights. Around 150, under Antoninus Pius, the city gained the status of a municipium. The Roman presence ended around 270 AD.

Little of that city remains above ground. What does remain is its location on Holland's oldest dune ridge, a geology that gave Voorburg its higher elevation compared to the wet polder surrounding it. Herenstraat follows the direction of an old road that existed long before the Middle Ages.

Herenstraat

Herenstraat is the backbone of the center. Shops, restaurants, terraces, and monumental facades stand side by side on a strip stretching over a kilometer. The average construction year of the facades is 1846. The oldest documented house dates from 1501. A number of seventeenth-century buildings with stepped gables have been preserved. Huize Swaensteyn from 1632 (Herenstraat 72-74) is now the town hall and wedding venue for the municipality.

The street is narrow. One lane for cars, wide sidewalks for pedestrians and terraces. On warm days, Herenstraat is used until late. The Old Church at number 77 marks the historic center of the strip.

Housing Supply

Voorburg's city center falls under the Voorburg Midden district, which has a rental market share of approximately 49%. This is high for a historic core of this size. The combination of monumental buildings divided into apartments and newer infill projects makes the supply more varied than the streetscape suggests.

Those who rent in the center typically find an apartment in a former merchant's house, an upstairs apartment on Herenstraat itself, or a home in a smaller complex on a side street. Larger rental homes are scarce. The proximity to The Hague keeps demand high and supply tight.

3-room apartment with balcony and parking space

€1,575 / month

Burgemeester Feithplein 226, Voorburg

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81 m²

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1-bedroom apartment with balcony and parking space

€1,437 / month

Burgemeester Feithplein 131, Voorburg

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72 m²

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Quiet Double Upper House near Julianabaan

€1,495 / month

Jan Mulderstraat 20, Voorburg

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Bright 3-room apartment with 2 bedrooms

€1,595 / month

Herman Gorterstraat 66, Voorburg

2

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Maisonette in Bezuidenhout with private parking space

€2,000 / month

Johannes Camphuijsstraat, Voorburg

2

81 m²

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Energy-efficient 4-room maisonette in Voorburg

€1,450 / month

Van Tuyll van Serooskerkenstraat 49, Voorburg

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Accessibility

Voorburg Station is a ten to fifteen-minute walk from Herenstraat. Direct trains to Den Haag Centraal depart every half hour and take four minutes. HTM tram lines 1, 6, and 17 connect Voorburg to The Hague via different routes. Those who work in The Hague have one of the shortest commutes in the region from Voorburg's city center.

The N14 is accessible via the edges of Voorburg. It's a fifteen-minute drive to Delft. Leiden can be reached in twenty to twenty-five minutes. Parking in the center is limited but easier than in The Hague itself.