neighbourhood in Kampen

Binnenstad Kampen

5,280 residents · postal code 8261 · Part of Kampen, Kampen

Bottom 13% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

In Binnenstad Kampen everything is around the corner — the GP, a restaurant, a shop, the station — and with a 9.8 the accessibility is among the best in the country. The downside is in the rest of the figures, and one number stands out there: more than one in ten addresses stands empty, almost three times what is normal nationally. Vacancy counts towards the wealth pillar, which gets stuck at a 3.3.

Quiet gets a 3.8 while a fair share of the area consists of water. That does help, but there is far less greenery close to home than elsewhere, the noise level is above it and the neighbourhood is densely populated.

Children are scarce: not even one in six households has them, while the primary school is within walking distance. That pushes the families pillar down to a 5.1.

no. 11,468 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 30 of 33 in Kampen

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Is Binnenstad Kampen a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

36.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

13.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 309 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.0 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.0 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

€ 257,000

Welfare recipients

28.4 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

11%

Owner-occupied

45%

Social housing

15%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

44%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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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

9,314 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

28%

Trees nearby

Water share

27%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,300

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.5 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.

Tick = Dutch median

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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

0.6 km

Households with children

16%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Binnenstad Kampen has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4534%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
16% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,314 — 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 Binnenstad Kampen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Binnenstad Kampen comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binnenstad Kampen 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 Binnenstad Kampen?

In Binnenstad Kampen the police recorded 309 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 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 Binnenstad Kampen calculated?

Binnenstad Kampen scores 3.4 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 Binnenstad Kampen 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.