neighbourhood in Medemblik
Opperdoes Centrum
1,815 residents · postal code 1674 · Part of Opperdoes, Medemblik
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Opperdoes Centrum has a school around the corner and little else: the supermarket is a good two and a half kilometres away, the GP slightly further, and there is no restaurant nearby. Amenities therefore come out at a 3.2, while the families pillar reaches an 8.6 — it mainly measures school distance, and that is five hundred metres here.
The quiet is the second thing that stands out. Noise levels are well below the national median and greenery above it, producing a 6.8 for quiet & nature. The 4.3 for wealth & income is pushed down by social assistance far above the national rate and a vacancy rate almost double it; property value, by contrast, stays close to the median.
- no. 7,647 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 30 of 51 in Medemblik
How Opperdoes Centrum scores
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Is Opperdoes Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Opperdoes Centrum comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Opperdoes Centrum 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, 29 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
The age profile of Opperdoes Centrum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,875 — 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 Opperdoes Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Opperdoes Centrum comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Opperdoes Centrum 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 Opperdoes Centrum?
In Opperdoes Centrum the police recorded 29 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Opperdoes Centrum calculated?
Opperdoes Centrum scores 5.6 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 Opperdoes Centrum 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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