neighbourhood in Beverwijk
Wijk aan Zee
2,125 residents · postal code 1949 · Part of Wijk aan Zee, Beverwijk
Everything close by, except school and childcare
One in five addresses in Wijk aan Zee is vacant — five times the national norm. That is this neighbourhood's most deviant figure, and it pushes the wealth & income pillar down to 4.9, while incomes are in fact slightly better than the national median and the social assistance rate stays below it.
The 4.0 for families, unusually, does not come from distance here. The primary school is within a kilometre; it is the numbers that count — hardly any children under fifteen and few households with children. In most neighbourhoods with a score like that it is the other way round.
What the scores do not show is the spread within the safety pillar. Total offences are below the national median, but violence and vandalism are above it and only burglary and property crime below. A 6.2 therefore hides two different stories.
- no. 9,376 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 26 of 33 in Beverwijk
How Wijk aan Zee scores
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Is Wijk aan Zee a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wijk aan Zee comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 71 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 Wijk aan Zee looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,291 — far less 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 Wijk aan Zee a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wijk aan Zee comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Wijk aan Zee?
In Wijk aan Zee the police recorded 71 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Wijk aan Zee calculated?
Wijk aan Zee scores 4.6 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 Wijk aan Zee 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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