neighbourhood in Alkmaar

Overdie-Oost

3,250 residents · postal code 1813 · Part of Overdie, Alkmaar

Bottom 35% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

The social assistance rate in Overdie-Oost is more than ten times the national median. That is not a nuance in an otherwise average picture but the picture itself: households on a high income are far scarcer here than nationally, the share of low incomes is far above it, and property value stays well below the median. Every component of the wealth pillar points the same way, and that is where the 2.9 comes from.

The same holds across the board for safety. Violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism all lie above the national middle, violence and vandalism at more than double. This is not the profile of a place where things go missing but little else happens.

Set against that is a 9.9 for families, and it is real: the primary school is three hundred metres away, four in ten households have children, and a fifth of residents are under fifteen. For anyone growing up here the school is close and the rest of the figures far off.

no. 8,547 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 49 of 63 in Alkmaar

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Is Overdie-Oost 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

37.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

12.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 148 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

0.6 km

Train station

3.2 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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

€ 254,000

Welfare recipients

95.4 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

58%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

Social housing

88%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

27%

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

11,637 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

44%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,201

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 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

0.3 km

Households with children

39%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

20%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Overdie-Oost has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 12%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1520%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+12%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,637 — 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 Overdie-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Overdie-Oost comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Overdie-Oost 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 Overdie-Oost?

In Overdie-Oost the police recorded 148 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Overdie-Oost calculated?

Overdie-Oost scores 5.1 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 Overdie-Oost 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.