neighbourhood in Alkmaar

Schermereiland en Omval

1,870 residents · postal code 1821 · Part of Oudorp, Alkmaar

Bottom 47% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

Schermereiland en Omval records more offences than the average Dutch neighbourhood and still comes away with a 7.5 for safety. That is because the two heaviest-weighted types are mild here: violence is below the median and burglary is almost absent. What drives the total up is property crime and vandalism, which together account for a quarter of the pillar.

The weak spot is families, at a 4.8. The primary school is a kilometre and a half away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar. For a household with young children that is not a detail but a daily drive.

The quiet & nature pillar is stuck at a 4.6 because of the noise level, which is well above the national middle, and a green share clearly below it. The water nearby offsets part of that, but not all of it.

no. 6,937 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 41 of 63 in Alkmaar

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Is Schermereiland en Omval a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schermereiland en Omval comes out at 35 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

34.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

9.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 127 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

1.1 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

2.6 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 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

€ 379,000

Welfare recipients

16.0 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

57%

Built after 2000

46%

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

1,914 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,907

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.9 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

1.6 km

Households with children

26%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.2 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schermereiland en Omval has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+21%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,914 — 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 Schermereiland en Omval a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schermereiland en Omval comes out at 35 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.5. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 35 records per 1,000, 1.6 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Schermereiland en Omval?

In Schermereiland en Omval the police recorded 127 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (35 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 Schermereiland en Omval calculated?

Schermereiland en Omval scores 6.0 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 Schermereiland en Omval 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.