neighbourhood in Edam-Volendam
Volendam-Middengebied
3,685 residents · postal code 1132 · Part of Volendam, Edam-Volendam
Safe, but not spacious
In Volendam-Middengebied no social assistance benefits are recorded at all — zero, against almost eight per thousand residents nationally. Together with property values above the national median that yields a 7.5 for wealth & income, though the picture is not uniformly strong: the share of households on a low income sits above the national median.
The 9.9 for safety is borne out across the board; all four offence types sit far below the national median, burglary at almost nil. What the neighbourhood gives up is reach to care and transport: the GP is nearly two kilometres away and the railway station nearly ten. Seven in ten households here have children, and that combination — many families, few reported offences, a drive to the doctor — is what keeps the families score at a 7.3 rather than higher.
- no. 1,842 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 26 in Edam-Volendam
How Volendam-Middengebied scores
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Is Volendam-Middengebied a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Volendam-Middengebied comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Volendam-Middengebied 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, 47 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-Middengebied has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 31%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2531%
NL median 11%
- 25–4512%
NL median 22%
- 45–6539%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
3.2 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
70% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,066 — 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-Middengebied a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Volendam-Middengebied comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Volendam-Middengebied 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-Middengebied?
In Volendam-Middengebied the police recorded 47 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-Middengebied calculated?
Volendam-Middengebied scores 8.9 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-Middengebied 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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