neighbourhood in Almere
Centrum Stad West
2,065 residents · postal code 1315 · Part of Centrum Almere Stad, Almere
Everything close by, little space
Centrum Stad West is among the very best-connected neighbourhoods in the Netherlands — everything is within a few hundred metres, station included, and that produces the maximum 10.0. On every other count the neighbourhood is at the bottom.
Nearly five times as many offences are recorded here as in the average Dutch neighbourhood. Property crime is by far the largest category, but violence runs at more than seven times the national median, so this is not solely a matter of stolen belongings.
The housing stock explains part of the rest. There is not a single family home, two thirds of households consist of one person and the great majority rent. Together with a social assistance rate of almost seven times the median, that holds wealth & income at 2.9. The 2.5 for quiet & nature is close to the lowest measured in this country.
- no. 12,673 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 171 of 174 in Almere
How Centrum Stad West scores
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Is Centrum Stad West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Centrum Stad West comes out at 114 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum Stad West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 407 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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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
Centrum Stad West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4541%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
65% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
14,503 — 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 Centrum Stad West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Centrum Stad West comes out at 114 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum Stad 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 Centrum Stad West?
In Centrum Stad West the police recorded 407 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (114 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 Centrum Stad West calculated?
Centrum Stad West scores 2.7 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 Centrum Stad 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Almere
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almere.
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