neighbourhood in Castricum
Limmen Oost
2,150 residents · postal code 1906 · Part of Limmen, Castricum
Everything close by, safety lags
With fewer than four hundred residents per square kilometre, Limmen Oost is spaciously laid out, and more than eight tenths of it lies within three hundred metres of greenery. The quiet & nature pillar still gets no higher than 6.8, because the tree canopy covers less than half the national share and the noise level is above the median. Green on the map is not the same as trees overhead.
The safety score needs explaining. Fewer offences are recorded here than in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and yet the pillar sticks at 5.7. That is down to burglary: it sits at three times the median and counts heavily.
More than a third of residents are 65 or older. With a primary school six hundred metres away, that is why the families score stays below the middle.
- no. 3,759 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 18 in Castricum
How Limmen Oost scores
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Is Limmen Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Limmen Oost comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 59 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
Limmen Oost has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
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
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
373 — 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 Limmen Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Limmen Oost comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Limmen Oost?
In Limmen Oost the police recorded 59 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Limmen Oost calculated?
Limmen Oost scores 7.8 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 Limmen Oost 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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