neighbourhood in Alkmaar

Huiswaard-2-West

2,295 residents · postal code 1824 · Part of Huiswaard, Alkmaar

Top 38% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Almost sixty recorded offences per thousand residents, and the vast majority of them property crime: more than four times the national figure. Even so, Huiswaard-2-West is not a pure theft profile, because the violence figure is above the median as well. Only burglary stays roughly on it, which is striking in a neighbourhood where eight in ten homes are owner-occupied.

The quiet & nature pillar shows the opposite. With almost eight thousand residents per square kilometre you would expect a low score, but tree canopy here is nearly double the national figure and close to a tenth of the surface is water; together that yields a 6.7. With the railway station eight hundred metres away, this becomes one of the few neighbourhoods that manage density, greenery and accessibility at once.

no. 4,884 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 27 of 63 in Alkmaar

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Is Huiswaard-2-West a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

58.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

41.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 184 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

3.2 km

Café

1.7 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 364,000

Welfare recipients

4.4 per 1,000

High incomes

21%

Low incomes

29%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

86%

Social housing

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

80%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

7,788 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,203

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.6 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.6 km

Households with children

34%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Huiswaard-2-West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+24%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,788 — far more 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 Huiswaard-2-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Huiswaard-2-West comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Huiswaard-2-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Huiswaard-2-West?

In Huiswaard-2-West the police recorded 184 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (58 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 Huiswaard-2-West calculated?

Huiswaard-2-West scores 7.2 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 Huiswaard-2-West 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.