neighbourhood in Almere
Literatuurwijk Midden-oost
1,820 residents · postal code 1321 · Part of Literatuurwijk, Almere
Everything for children close by, and little room
Almost six in ten households in Literatuurwijk Midden-oost have children and fewer than a tenth of residents are 65 or older. Together with a primary school five hundred metres away that produces a 9.8 for families — here the score really is about children and not only about distances.
The safety pillar sticks at a 4.1, and the cause is not theft, which is below the national middle. It is burglary and violence that rise above it, and those are the two heaviest components of that figure.
Quiet & nature reaches a 3.3 without noise being high: there is no open water, greenery nearby stays below the median and so does the tree canopy, at a density of more than eight thousand residents per square kilometre.
- no. 3,682 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 83 of 174 in Almere
How Literatuurwijk Midden-oost scores
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Is Literatuurwijk Midden-oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Literatuurwijk Midden-oost comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 56 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
Literatuurwijk Midden-oost has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 9%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
57% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,009 — 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 Literatuurwijk Midden-oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Literatuurwijk Midden-oost comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Literatuurwijk Midden-oost?
In Literatuurwijk Midden-oost the police recorded 56 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Literatuurwijk Midden-oost calculated?
Literatuurwijk Midden-oost scores 7.9 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 Literatuurwijk Midden-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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Almere
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almere.
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