neighbourhood in Almere
Duin Zuid
2,060 residents · postal code 1361 · Part of Duin, Almere
Everything close by, little space
Duin Zuid is thinly built — under two thousand residents per square kilometre — and still scores only 2.9 for quiet & nature. That is the kind of figure you would expect in a city centre, and here it comes from the surroundings rather than the density: less than a third of the immediate area is green, the tree canopy is thin, water is absent and ambient noise is nearly five decibels above the national median.
The wealth & income pillar of 7.9 has one deviation. Property value and the share of high incomes are far above the national middle and the bottom income group is narrow, but the rate of social assistance is close to twice the median.
Families stalls at 5.3, and the primary school more than a kilometre away is the main reason — school distance weighs heaviest in that pillar.
- no. 6,232 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 118 of 174 in Almere
How Duin Zuid scores
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Is Duin Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Duin Zuid comes out at 27 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.
In 2025, 80 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
Duin Zuid has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 6%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,889 — 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 Duin Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Duin Zuid comes out at 27 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 Duin Zuid?
In Duin Zuid the police recorded 80 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Duin Zuid calculated?
Duin Zuid scores 6.4 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 Duin Zuid 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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