neighbourhood in Edam-Volendam
Schardam
115 residents · postal code 1476 · Part of Schardam, Edam-Volendam
Well-off, schools and childcare further off
Schardam has just over a hundred residents at forty-six per square kilometre, which makes almost every figure here one to read carefully. Statistics Netherlands does not publish the income spread where there are so few households, so the wealth & income pillar rests on property values, vacancy and the absence of social assistance. Of those three, vacancy stands out: more than a sixth of homes, four times the national middle.
Greenery within three hundred metres is well above the median while tree canopy does not reach an eighth of it — the same pattern of pasture without woodland you meet more often in this part of Noord-Holland. Noise stays below the national level.
The distances are the real characteristic: supermarket, GP and primary school are all more than three kilometres away, the station almost eight. That explains both the 3.2 for amenities and the 2.9 for families, since school distance is the heaviest component of the latter pillar. Almost three in ten households here have children.
- no. 11,717 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 26 of 26 in Edam-Volendam
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Schardam scores
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Is Schardam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schardam comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 4 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
Schardam has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4515%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
46 — 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 Schardam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schardam comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Schardam?
In Schardam the police recorded 4 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Schardam calculated?
Schardam scores 3.3 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 Schardam 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Edam-Volendam
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Edam-Volendam.
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