neighbourhood in Haarlem
Sinnevelt
2,275 residents · postal code 2024 · Part of Te Zaanenkwartier, Haarlem
Everything close by, little space
The primary school in Sinnevelt is seven hundred metres away and still the families pillar gets no further than 5.9. So it cannot be down to distance here: it lies with the residents. One in ten is under fifteen, more than a quarter are 65 or over and only a fifth of households have children.
The 3.4 for quiet & nature follows from how the neighbourhood is built. Almost eight thousand people live here per square kilometre, open water is absent, the green cover within three hundred metres stays below the median and the sound level is above it. Only the tree canopy just holds its ground.
Wealth & income comes out at 5.7 with a striking composition: few low incomes, slightly more high ones than nationally, but a property value below the median and a social assistance rate more than one and a half times above the national level. The residents are not poor; their homes are cheap.
- no. 5,186 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 60 of 97 in Haarlem
How Sinnevelt scores
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Is Sinnevelt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sinnevelt comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 60 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
Sinnevelt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,831 — 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 Sinnevelt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sinnevelt comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Sinnevelt?
In Sinnevelt the police recorded 60 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Sinnevelt calculated?
Sinnevelt scores 7.0 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 Sinnevelt 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 Haarlem
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haarlem.
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