neighbourhood in Castricum

Albert's Hoeve

2,800 residents · postal code 1902 · Part of Castricum-Oost, Castricum

Top 6% in the Netherlands

Safe, and nowhere really weak

Albert's Hoeve scores a 9.6 overall without standing out anywhere except on one pillar: safety. Violence, burglary and vandalism all sit below the national middle, and theft sits far below it. In a neighbourhood of nearly three thousand residents those are no longer flukes.

Wealth is less clear-cut than the property value suggests. That value is above the national middle, the share of high incomes too, vacancy is minimal — but the social assistance rate here is more than three times the national one. That is why the wealth & income pillar stalls at a 6.8 instead of keeping pace with the rest.

The 7.7 for families says more about the map than about the population. The primary school is a few hundred metres away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar. Meanwhile fewer than one in eight residents is under fifteen and more than one in five is over sixty-five. A high families score here therefore means: schooling within easy reach, not many children.

no. 767 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 4 of 18 in Castricum

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Is Albert's Hoeve a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Albert's Hoeve comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Albert's Hoeve 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.

Total crime

14.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

4.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 43 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

0.4 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

4.7 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 471,000

Welfare recipients

25.0 per 1,000

High incomes

24%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

33%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

74%

Built after 2000

19%

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

4,137 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

74%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,380

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.5 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

0.5 km

Households with children

33%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Albert's Hoeve has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 36%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4519%
NL median 22%
45–6536%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,137 — 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 Albert's Hoeve a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Albert's Hoeve?

In Albert's Hoeve the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Albert's Hoeve calculated?

Albert's Hoeve scores 9.6 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 Albert's Hoeve 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.