neighbourhood in Almere
Parkwijk Noordwest
1,755 residents · postal code 1326 · Part of Parkwijk, Almere
Good for children, with a safety question
The supermarket, the GP and the primary school in Parkwijk Noordwest are all within five hundred metres, and still there is a 3.3 for safety — the lowest of the five pillars. That comes from two directions at once: theft is almost three times the national middle and violence more than twice.
That combination matters more than the score itself. Where many urban neighbourhoods mainly record things disappearing, here violence rises above the median as well, and that is the heaviest item in this pillar.
The families pillar meanwhile reaches a 9.7, mostly because the primary school is around the corner; this is not a young neighbourhood, since more than a quarter of residents are 65 or older.
- no. 4,790 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 101 of 174 in Almere
How Parkwijk Noordwest scores
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Is Parkwijk Noordwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Parkwijk Noordwest comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Parkwijk Noordwest is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 136 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
The age profile of Parkwijk Noordwest looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,092 — 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 Parkwijk Noordwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Parkwijk Noordwest comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Parkwijk Noordwest is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Parkwijk Noordwest?
In Parkwijk Noordwest the police recorded 136 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (53 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 Parkwijk Noordwest calculated?
Parkwijk Noordwest scores 7.3 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 Parkwijk 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almere.
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