neighbourhood in Purmerend

Overwhere-Noord

5,790 residents · postal code 1444 · Part of Overwhere, Purmerend

Bottom 49% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Overwhere-Noord in Purmerend has one and a half times as many crime registrations as the average Dutch neighbourhood, and still scores a 7.0 for safety. That seems contradictory but is not: violence, residential burglary and property crime here are below the national middle, only vandalism above it. Those separately counted types together account for only a minority of all registrations; the rest falls into categories that are not broken out and that count more lightly.

The age structure is the second story. A third of residents are 65 or older, single-person households make up half here and the share of children is small. The families score of 5.2 fits that, despite a primary school within walking distance: that pillar measures not only accessibility, but also who lives there.

no. 6,771 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 19 of 31 in Purmerend

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Is Overwhere-Noord 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

37.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

8.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 282 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

0.9 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

3.0 km

Café

0.9 km

Library

2.6 km

Motorway ramp

0.9 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

€ 332,000

Welfare recipients

12.1 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

64%

Social housing

22%

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

5,249 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

61%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,776

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.7 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

0.8 km

Households with children

22%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Overwhere-Noord has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+33%
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
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,249 — 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 Overwhere-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Overwhere-Noord comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Overwhere-Noord is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.0. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 37 records per 1,000, 1.6 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Overwhere-Noord?

In Overwhere-Noord the police recorded 282 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Overwhere-Noord calculated?

Overwhere-Noord scores 6.1 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 Overwhere-Noord 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.