neighbourhood in Enkhuizen
Enkhuizerzand
155 residents · postal code 1601 · Part of Enkhuizen Noord, Enkhuizen
Good for children, with a safety question
Two of the five pillars are missing for Enkhuizerzand: there is no score for amenities and none for wealth & income, so the overall figure rests on three. That is the first thing to know when reading that 6.5 — it is not comparing the same thing as in a neighbourhood with five scores. The income spread is missing too; Statistics Netherlands does not publish it where there are too few households.
What is there is striking. More than a quarter of residents are under fifteen, more than double the usual share, and four in ten households have children. That is where the 9.8 for families comes from, in a population of not even a hundred and sixty people.
The offence figure is more than twice the national median and is almost entirely property crime; violence stays below. At this size one report stands for more than six per thousand, so the figure says more about how many people pass through than about how safe it is for those who live there. Noise is eight decibels below the national middle.
- no. 6,079 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 13 in Enkhuizen
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Enkhuizerzand scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Wealth & income
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Enkhuizerzand a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Enkhuizerzand comes out at 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Enkhuizerzand is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 25 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Enkhuizen →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Enkhuizen →
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.
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
Enkhuizerzand has strikingly many children under 15: 26%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1526%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
220 — 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 Enkhuizerzand a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Enkhuizerzand comes out at 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Enkhuizerzand is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Enkhuizerzand?
In Enkhuizerzand the police recorded 25 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (59 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 Enkhuizerzand calculated?
Enkhuizerzand scores 6.5 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 Enkhuizerzand 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 Enkhuizen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Enkhuizen.
Highest grades
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