The district Centrum of The Hague is divided in the following subdistricts (Dutch:wijken):[4][5] The neighbourhood Archipelbuurt / Willemspark was largely built at the end of the 19th century.

A lot of the large houses nowadays are used as offices, for example at the Nassauplein, the Koninginnegracht and the Laan Copes van Cattenburch.

On the southern border of the Archipelbuurt there are newly built offices, the police headquarters and the Nationale Investeringsbank (National Investment Bank).

In 3450 residents in 2007 undertook paid employment or self, the magnitude of the potential workforce (the number of people aged 15–64) was in 2008 22,253.

Of all households in the district lived in Schilderswijk in 2007 42% of the poverty line from 16% in The Hague[citation needed].

Especially in the eastern part of the Schilderswijk (Orange Square and around the station Holland Spoor) some problems have been addressed, so the renewed Orange Square, have built larger homes including houses for sale, for example the new Mirador project, and the prostitution in the Dijksestraat were removed.

The investment by the government to solve the problems of urban renewal in the district not, the unemployment remained high, the neighborhood quickly deteriorated again, crime increased and there was nuisance of drug addicts, vandalism and graffiti.

Also, many small changes made to the social security and increase the pollution abatement, such as better lighting and more garbage.

Only in the area of the Westeinde (West End Street) to the Prinsegracht (Prince Canal) you would find more exclusive residences.

The renovation was officially finished in 1991, although a new project was started immediately after, involving housing on the former location of the bathhouse on the Torenstraat.

A decisive conflict took place at the meeting in a café annex conference room called "Excelsior" in the korte Lombardstraat, between the champions of the political struggle of the proletariat Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, where Bakunin was to be expelled from the movement.

Perhaps most dramatic was an accident, when on account of too many supporters being cramped up on a balcony of the meeting hall, it collapsed, and a number of people where severely hurt.

The potential labour force (the population aged 15–64) is 10,875 as of January 2013, but only 2,998 these people in the district earn income or are self-employed.

Under this program, an action plan was written for the area, describing how residents, community, welfare and corporations want the district to look in ten years.

It was at the home at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 in April 1782 that John Adams established the first US embassy and first diplomatic mission in the Netherlands.

[7] The home Adams' acquired as the diplomatic mission is gone and replaced by a high rise residential complex.

Much of the neighbourhood was built in the 19th century, when the area within the canal ring of The Hague didn't have the capacity to meet the significant urbanisation caused by the Industrial Revolution.