neighbourhood in Almere
Molenbuurt Oost
2,170 residents · postal code 1333 · Part of Molenbuurt, Almere
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
The primary school in Molenbuurt Oost is three hundred metres away, closer than the supermarket and closer than the GP. That largely explains the 9.6 for families, because school distance is the heaviest component of the pillar, while the share of children here is average by national standards.
The 6.0 for safety sits next to a crime total below the national middle, and that looks contradictory until you look at the types. Criminal damage occurs almost twice as often here as nationally and burglary is well above the median too; violence and theft stay below. Nuisance in the street and damage to property, then, rather than anything heavier.
On the 5.1 for wealth & income the components do not point the same way. Four in five homes are owner-occupied, but property value stays well below the national median, the share of high incomes below it, and the number of social assistance claims runs almost three times above it. Ownership and wealth diverge here.
- no. 2,597 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 64 of 174 in Almere
How Molenbuurt Oost scores
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Is Molenbuurt Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenbuurt Oost comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 55 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
Molenbuurt Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,668 — 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 Molenbuurt Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenbuurt Oost comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Molenbuurt Oost?
In Molenbuurt Oost the police recorded 55 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Molenbuurt Oost calculated?
Molenbuurt Oost scores 8.5 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 Molenbuurt 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almere.
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