neighbourhood in Medemblik
Zwaagdijk-West Centrum
445 residents · postal code 1685 · Part of Zwaagdijk-West, Medemblik
School close by, shops further off
In Zwaagdijk-West Centrum the school is around the corner and the shop is far away. Five hundred metres to the primary school against a good two kilometres to the supermarket and GP: the families pillar therefore reaches an 8.9 while amenities stall at a 4.1. For the daily shopping run, that means the car or the bike.
Wealth & income, a 5.8, cannot be summed up in one direction. Property value is above the national median and vacancy far below it, but social assistance is almost three times the national rate and the lowest income group is clearly broader. With just over four hundred residents these are small numbers, in which a handful of households can already tip the picture.
- no. 5,623 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 51 in Medemblik
How Zwaagdijk-West Centrum scores
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Is Zwaagdijk-West Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zwaagdijk-West Centrum comes out at 19 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, 6 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
Zwaagdijk-West Centrum has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,484 — around the 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 Zwaagdijk-West Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zwaagdijk-West Centrum comes out at 19 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 Zwaagdijk-West Centrum?
In Zwaagdijk-West Centrum the police recorded 6 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Zwaagdijk-West Centrum calculated?
Zwaagdijk-West Centrum scores 6.8 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 Zwaagdijk-West 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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