neighbourhood in Almere
Nobelhorst West
2,425 residents · postal code 1341 · Part of Nobelhorst, Almere
Safe, but everything is a drive away
The primary school in Nobelhorst West is four hundred metres away, the supermarket almost three kilometres. That gap explains why this neighbourhood has both a 9.8 for families and a 3.3 for amenities: the first pillar mainly measures school distance, the second the daily shopping.
The population is young in a way you rarely see: two in three households have children and the share of over-65s is a fraction of the national picture. The entire housing stock dates from after 2000.
The 9.1 for wealth & income rests on almost every component at once: high property value, many high incomes, few low incomes and virtually no vacancy. Social assistance is the exception, sitting simply at the national level rather than below it, which is notable given the rest of the picture.
- no. 358 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 13 of 174 in Almere
How Nobelhorst West scores
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Is Nobelhorst West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nobelhorst West comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nobelhorst West 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, 30 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
Nobelhorst West has strikingly many children under 15: 31%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1531%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+4%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
65% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,666 — 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 Nobelhorst West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nobelhorst West comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nobelhorst West 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 Nobelhorst West?
In Nobelhorst West the police recorded 30 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Nobelhorst West calculated?
Nobelhorst West scores 9.8 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 Nobelhorst 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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