neighbourhood in Almere
Literatuurwijk Noordwest
2,020 residents · postal code 1321 · Part of Literatuurwijk, Almere
Everything for children close by, and little room
Almost everything stands high in Literatuurwijk Noordwest, and one figure cuts straight through it: a 2.8 for quiet & nature. That is not a contradiction but a description. Population density is high, the noise level clearly exceeds the national median, the greenery within three hundred metres falls short of it, and there is no surface water. Five measurements, four of them unfavourable.
Behind the 8.0 for safety sits a sharper warning than the score suggests. Violence, property crime and vandalism all lie below the national middle, but domestic burglary occurs here more than four times as often as in the median Dutch neighbourhood. It is the only type that stands out, and it is precisely the type residents change their locks for.
The families pillar reaches a 9.9 and earns it from both sides at once: the primary school is four hundred metres away and nearly six in ten households have children. The latter is no given here, because that pillar leans heavily on distance.
- no. 633 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 23 of 174 in Almere
How Literatuurwijk Noordwest scores
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Is Literatuurwijk Noordwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Literatuurwijk Noordwest comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Literatuurwijk Noordwest 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, 33 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 Noordwest has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 8%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
58% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,336 — 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 Noordwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Literatuurwijk Noordwest comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Literatuurwijk Noordwest 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 Literatuurwijk Noordwest?
In Literatuurwijk Noordwest the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Noordwest calculated?
Literatuurwijk Noordwest scores 9.6 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 Noordwest 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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