neighbourhood in Alkmaar
Grootschermer
710 residents · postal code 1843 · Part of Schermer, Alkmaar
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Grootschermer scores a 9.6 for safety and a 9.2 for quiet & nature, and neither is a fluke: all four offence types sit below the national middle and the noise level is far below it. What you pay for that shows up in the amenities pillar, which stays at a 2.9. The supermarket and the GP are more than four kilometres away and the station more than twelve.
One striking exception: the primary school is seven hundred metres away, closer than in many an urban neighbourhood. So the 4.0 for families here does not come from school distance but from who lives here — the share of children under fifteen is clearly below the national figure and the share of over-65s above it.
The greenery around the neighbourhood is well above the Dutch middle, but the tree canopy is not. Open land is not wooded land here, and that difference is in the numbers.
- no. 4,787 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 26 of 63 in Alkmaar
How Grootschermer scores
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Is Grootschermer a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Grootschermer comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grootschermer is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 8 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
The age profile of Grootschermer looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
72 — far less densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Grootschermer a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Grootschermer comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grootschermer is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Grootschermer?
In Grootschermer the police recorded 8 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Grootschermer calculated?
Grootschermer scores 7.3 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Grootschermer lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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