neighbourhood in Almere

Stedenwijk Noord

2,130 residents · postal code 1324 · Part of Stedenwijk, Almere

Bottom 18% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

On the families pillar Stedenwijk Noord is in the national top tier: a 9.9, with the primary school three hundred metres away and half of households having children. On safety it stands at 2.8, and that is no detail — violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are all four above the national median, violence by the widest margin.

Those two numbers describe the same streets. A neighbourhood where many children grow up and where every type of offence is above the median at once is not unusual, but it forces a trade-off the separate scores do not show.

The 3.4 for wealth & income has one striking component: hardly any households in the top income group, while the bottom group is well above the national median. Property value stays below the median and the share of owner-occupied homes is small — this is almost entirely a rented neighbourhood.

no. 10,847 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 158 of 174 in Almere

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Is Stedenwijk Noord a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

46.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

7.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.6 per 1,000

Property crime

14.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.2 per 1,000

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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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

1.2 km

GP practice

1.2 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

1.2 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

1.3 km

Library

1.8 km

Motorway ramp

2.8 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 320,000

Welfare recipients

56.3 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

55%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

11%

Social housing

87%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

80%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

11,465 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,702

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.3 km

Households with children

50%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

21%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Stedenwijk Noord has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1521%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,465 — 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 Stedenwijk Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Stedenwijk Noord comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Stedenwijk Noord 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 Stedenwijk Noord?

In Stedenwijk Noord the police recorded 136 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Stedenwijk Noord calculated?

Stedenwijk Noord scores 3.8 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 Stedenwijk Noord 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.