neighbourhood in Heemskerk
Slotherenbuurt
2,260 residents · postal code 1962 · Part of Assumburg, Heemskerk
Everything for children close by, and little room
A 9.6 for families is exceptional, and in Slotherenbuurt it comes from two directions at once. The primary school is five hundred metres away — school distance is almost a third of that pillar — and children live in nearly forty per cent of households. That combination is not common.
The overall score of 8.9 therefore leans heavily on it, because two other pillars hover around the middle. On wealth & income, a 5.2, the brake is not property values, which sit just below the national middle, but social assistance: more than twice the median. The shares of high and low incomes barely differ from the national pattern.
The 5.0 for quiet & nature is a matter of density. More than seven thousand residents per square kilometre leaves little room, and the share of greenery within three hundred metres accordingly stays below the median. What is built here is built close together; the tree canopy, by contrast, is more generous than usual.
- no. 1,974 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 29 in Heemskerk
How Slotherenbuurt scores
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Is Slotherenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Slotherenbuurt comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Slotherenbuurt 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, 41 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
Slotherenbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,123 — 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 Slotherenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Slotherenbuurt comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Slotherenbuurt 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 Slotherenbuurt?
In Slotherenbuurt the police recorded 41 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Slotherenbuurt calculated?
Slotherenbuurt 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 Slotherenbuurt 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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