neighbourhood in Edam-Volendam
Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2
2,170 residents · postal code 1132 · Part of Volendam, Edam-Volendam
Safe, but not spacious
Almost half the residents of Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 are sixty-five or older — more than double what is usual nationally. And still the families pillar scores 7.0. That figure mainly measures the distance to school and childcare, and the primary school here is six hundred metres away. Anyone looking for a neighbourhood with many children is reading it wrong: only one in eight residents is under fifteen.
The 9.8 for safety rests on a clean foundation, because violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage all four sit below the national median and the total at less than half of it.
What the page does not show at a glance is the distance to the railway: almost ten kilometres to the nearest station. Because that component carries only a sixth of the amenities pillar, it still stands at 7.0.
The 5.4 for wealth & income is held down by a property value below the national middle and a broad low-income bracket.
- no. 2,727 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 26 in Edam-Volendam
How Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 scores
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Is Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 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.
In 2025, 23 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
Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 48%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6516%
NL median 28%
- 65+48%
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
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,187 — 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 Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2?
In Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 the police recorded 23 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 calculated?
Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 scores 8.4 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 Volendam-Blokgouw 1 en 2 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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