neighbourhood in Alkmaar

Oud-Overdie

2,810 residents · postal code 1813 · Part of Overdie, Alkmaar

Bottom 43% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Vandalism is recorded in Oud-Overdie almost three times as often as nationally, the most striking component of the 5.3 for safety — violence is only just above the median and burglary far below it. Vandalism carries the least weight of the four, so with a different type of offence the score would have been lower.

The wealth & income pillar of 3.7 comes from two sides: a property value well below the Dutch middle and a social assistance rate of more than five times the median, while vacancy actually lies under it. What the neighbourhood sets against that is the 8.7 for families, and on the distance side it holds up — the primary school is four hundred metres away. Meanwhile the share of households with children stays below the national middle, so that score says more about the school distance than about how many children live here. Greenery is scarce: not even a third of the surroundings counts, at over ten thousand residents per square kilometre.

no. 7,541 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 43 of 63 in Alkmaar

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Is Oud-Overdie a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oud-Overdie comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

30.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

11.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 111 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

0.8 km

GP practice

1.4 km

Train station

2.5 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

1.0 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 332,000

Welfare recipients

42.7 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

38%

Social housing

56%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

60%

Built after 2000

36%

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

10,652 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,095

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 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

0.4 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oud-Overdie has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,652 — 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 Oud-Overdie a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oud-Overdie comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Oud-Overdie?

In Oud-Overdie the police recorded 111 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Oud-Overdie calculated?

Oud-Overdie scores 5.7 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 Oud-Overdie 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.