neighbourhood in Almere
Molenbuurt West
1,780 residents · postal code 1333 · Part of Molenbuurt, Almere
Good for children, with a safety question
Molenbuurt West sits among the twenty highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands for families, at a 10.0, and at the same time in the weakest tenth for wealth & income. Those two figures are about the same households: the primary school is three hundred metres away and more than half of households have children, while the social assistance rate here is more than ten times the national middle and a quarter of the homes are owner-occupied.
The safety pillar comes out at a 3.1 and that is a broad pattern: violence, burglary and vandalism are all above the national middle, only theft stays below it.
Amenities, meanwhile, are well in order, with a shop, a GP and the station each within a kilometre — an 8.5, this neighbourhood's second-highest score.
- no. 6,992 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 126 of 174 in Almere
How Molenbuurt West scores
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Is Molenbuurt West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenbuurt West comes out at 31 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, 68 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 West has strikingly many children under 15: 23%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
52% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,461 — 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 West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenbuurt West comes out at 31 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 Molenbuurt West?
In Molenbuurt West the police recorded 68 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 West calculated?
Molenbuurt West scores 6.0 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 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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