neighbourhood in Alkmaar
Stompetoren
2,130 residents · postal code 1841 · Part of Schermer, Alkmaar
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Stompetoren is thinly populated — a few hundred residents per square kilometre — and that is not what sets the quiet & nature pillar here. It stalls at 7.0 because the tree canopy is far below the national median: plenty of open green, few trees. Noise is low and the green share is in fact high.
The 7.2 for wealth & income is broadly supported. Property value above the national median, more high and fewer low incomes than average, little vacancy; only the social assistance rate is slightly above the median. That is the exception, not the rule.
Where it chafes is access to the railway. Supermarket, GP and school are all within a kilometre, but the nearest station is almost seven kilometres away. That drops the 6.0 for amenities below what those short distances suggest, and for commuters it is the difference between a village with everything around the corner and a village where the day starts with a car journey.
- no. 1,155 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 63 in Alkmaar
How Stompetoren scores
Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Stompetoren a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stompetoren comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stompetoren 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, 45 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Alkmaar →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Alkmaar →
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 Stompetoren looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
194 — 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 Stompetoren a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stompetoren comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stompetoren 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 Stompetoren?
In Stompetoren the police recorded 45 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Stompetoren calculated?
Stompetoren scores 9.3 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 Stompetoren 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Alkmaar
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Alkmaar.
Lowest grades
More about this area
Nearby neighbourhoods
Huygenhoek Zuid
Dijk en Waard
Oterleek
Alkmaar
Schermereiland en Omval
Alkmaar
Huygenhoek Midden
Dijk en Waard
Oudorp-Noord en Oudorp-Oost
Alkmaar
Oudorp-Centrum
Alkmaar