Rooms for Rent in Den Haag

A room in Den Haag costs €738 a month on average for 24 m², based on over 6,300 room listings tracked by RentHunter since February 2024. Most rooms for rent in Den Haag ask between €455 and €1,000; 59% of listings come furnished, 33% target students and 10% target expats.

A room (kamer) means your own bedroom in shared accommodation, a house or apartment, with the kitchen and bathroom shared with housemates. Picture a first week in Den Haag: you step off the train at Den Haag Centraal for an internship in the International Zone or a course at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, drop your bag in a furnished room in the Zeeheldenkwartier, and cycle to the beach at Scheveningen in the evening.

Den Haag, a Zuid-Holland city of 524,882 inhabitants and the seat of the Dutch government, is about 21 minutes from Rotterdam by public transit (23 km). A room for rent in Den Haag therefore also works for a student or a job in Rotterdam.

Room listings in Den Haag differ on three points that decide the monthly cost and how long you can stay: furniture, how much you share, and the contract. Check all three in the property listing before you reply.

For a room in a shared house, a hospiteeravond (viewing evening) is common: the current housemates meet several candidates and choose who moves in, so treat it as a short interview and say why you are in Den Haag.

Furnished rooms make up 59% of Den Haag listings, more than half of the market, which suits interns at Europol, Eurojust or the OPCW on placements of a few months. If you arrive with one suitcase, browse furnished rooms in Den Haag. An unfurnished or gestoffeerd room, with flooring and curtains but no furniture, makes sense for a stay of a year or more, when buying a bed and a desk pays off.

A room in Den Haag measures 24 m² on average, with the kitchen, bathroom and often a living room shared in a flatshare. Some listings add a private kitchenette or bathroom; a unit with its own front door, kitchen and toilet is a studio, not a room. Rent benefit (huurtoeslag) is in most cases only available for a self-contained home, so a room rarely qualifies.

A room lease in Den Haag is open-ended by default, as every Dutch lease has been since 1 July 2024, so a regular room can be a long-term home. Student contracts are the main exception: the landlord can end them once you stop studying, and 33% of Den Haag room listings target students; see student rooms in Den Haag. For a short-term room, agree the end date in writing; a tenant who pays monthly gives one month's notice.

• Zeeheldenkwartier, by bike to the International Zone The Zeeheldenkwartier, west of the Den Haag center around the Piet Heinstraat, mixes cafés, small shops and older townhouses split into rooms. It suits interns and young professionals who cycle to the International Zone around the World Forum.
• Regentessekwartier along the Weimarstraat The Regentessekwartier, in the west of Den Haag around the Weimarstraat shopping street, has long rows of older terraced houses whose upper floors are often let as rooms. It suits students and young workers who want a neighborhood with a bakery and a supermarket on every corner and the dunes a short ride away.
• Transvaal and Schilderswijk by the Haagse Markt Transvaal and the Schilderswijk, south of the Den Haag center, surround the Haagse Markt, one of the largest open-air markets in Europe, and lie within walking or cycling distance of Den Haag HS and The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Just south, past the city border, rooms in Rijswijk sit on the same tram line toward Delft.
• Scheveningen, rooms near the beach Scheveningen, the Den Haag seaside district on the North Sea, has rooms within walking distance of the beach and the harbour, with trams running to Den Haag Centraal. It suits renters who want the sea on their doorstep and accept busy summer weekends on the boulevard.

Room rent in Den Haag runs from €455 to €1,000 a month for 80% of listings, around an average of €738 for 24 m². Rooms first seen on RentHunter in the 90 days to November 2026 asked a median rent of €686, and asking rents are stable compared with both three and twelve months earlier.

The Den Haag room market moves fast, with about 39 new rooms listed per week (28 days to November 2026). Save a search so new rooms reach your inbox instead of checking each landlord website, and reply on the day a room becomes available, with your passport, proof of income or enrollment and a short introduction ready.

The average deposit is 1.04 months of rent, below the legal cap of two months of base rent for leases signed since 1 July 2023, and a makelaar working for the landlord may not charge you a fee. Many adverts quote an all-in rent including service costs for energy, water and internet; ask for the split, since for a room the maximum rent follows the national points system and the Huurcommissie can check it.

52% of Den Haag room listings state that you can register at the address. You register with the gemeente Den Haag within 5 days of moving: by appointment for a first registration from abroad, online with DigiD for a move within the Netherlands. Without it you get no BSN, the citizen service number needed for a job, a bank account and health insurance, so make registration a condition before you pay a deposit.