neighbourhood in Purmerend

Binnenstad

1,995 residents · postal code 1441 · Part of Centrum, Purmerend

Bottom 20% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

A 10.0 for amenities alongside a 3.2 for safety — the Binnenstad of Purmerend shows what a town centre costs and delivers. Restaurants a hundred metres away, everyday amenities just as close, and at the same time a violence rate almost five times the national median and a property crime rate more than three times it. Burglary, by contrast, is not a problem here.

That violence rate is what sets it apart from other busy centres, where reports are mostly about things going missing. Six in ten households consist of one person and few children live here; with the primary school nine hundred metres away, a 4.1 for families follows from that.

no. 10,507 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 28 of 31 in Purmerend

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Is Binnenstad 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

67.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

11.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

31.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 305 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.5 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 326,000

Welfare recipients

20.1 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

10%

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

12%

Built after 2000

23%

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

7,424 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

34%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

13%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,976

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 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

0.9 km

Households with children

13%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Binnenstad has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 42%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4542%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,424 — 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 a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Binnenstad comes out at 68 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binnenstad 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?

In Binnenstad the police recorded 305 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (68 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 calculated?

Binnenstad scores 4.0 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 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.