neighbourhood in Enkhuizen

Kadijken

2,905 residents · postal code 1602 · Part of Enkhuizen Noord, Enkhuizen

Top 5% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

Kadijken scores 10.0 for safety, and that figure rests on all four offence types at once: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism all sit below the national middle value here, with burglaries at a mere fraction of it. All four rarely come out this low together.

The families score of 7.4 is lower than you would expect in a neighbourhood where almost six in ten households have children. The explanation is distance: the primary school is more than a kilometre away, and school distance weighs more heavily in that pillar than the number of children living there. For a family with a six-year-old that means a daily trip rather than crossing a street.

Also notable is how much water lies within the neighbourhood boundaries — a good many times what the average Dutch neighbourhood has, and one of the few components pushing the quiet and nature score up here.

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Is Kadijken a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kadijken comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kadijken 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.

Total crime

11.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

2.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 33 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

1.2 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

3.3 km

Restaurant

1.6 km

Hospital

3.1 km

Café

2.6 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 458,000

Welfare recipients

3.4 per 1,000

High incomes

24%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

89%

Social housing

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

97%

Built after 2000

66%

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

6,397 inw/km²

Noise level

48 dB

Green surroundings

42%

Trees nearby

Water share

15%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,044

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.8 µg/m³

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.

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.3 km

Households with children

59%

Childcare

1.3 km

Secondary school

1.9 km

Residents under 15

20%

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Who lives here

Kadijken has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 11%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1520%
NL median 14%
15–2516%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6531%
NL median 28%
65+11%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
59% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,397 — 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 Kadijken a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kadijken comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kadijken 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 Kadijken?

In Kadijken the police recorded 33 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 Kadijken calculated?

Kadijken scores 9.7 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 Kadijken 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.