neighbourhood in Medemblik
Medemblik Oude Stad
2,105 residents · postal code 1671 · Part of Medemblik, Medemblik
Everything close by, little to spend
Nearly a third of the residents of Medemblik Oude Stad are over sixty-five and almost half of households live alone. The share of children is half the national median. That the families pillar still reaches 6.6 is down to the primary school five hundred metres away — distance weighs more there than the make-up of the population.
Among the offences it is violence, burglary and vandalism that sit above the national median; property crime stays below it. The total therefore lands just over the median, but the centre of gravity is not theft.
The share of greenery around is strikingly low, at roughly half the national level, and that pushes the quiet & nature pillar down to 4.4 despite a sound level below the median. The station is more than twelve kilometres away; everything else is within a kilometre.
- no. 10,337 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 47 of 51 in Medemblik
How Medemblik Oude Stad scores
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Is Medemblik Oude Stad a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Medemblik Oude Stad comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 84 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
Medemblik Oude Stad has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,621 — 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 Medemblik Oude Stad a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Medemblik Oude Stad comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Medemblik Oude Stad?
In Medemblik Oude Stad the police recorded 84 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Medemblik Oude Stad calculated?
Medemblik Oude Stad scores 4.1 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 Medemblik Oude Stad 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 Medemblik
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Medemblik.
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