neighbourhood in Purmerend

Overwhere-Zuid

6,300 residents · postal code 1442 · Part of Overwhere, Purmerend

Bottom 28% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Overwhere-Zuid scores a 8.8 for amenities and a 3.2 for safety, and that contrast is the whole story. Everything is close by — station, shop, GP, school — and at the same time all four counted offence types stand above the Dutch median. Burglary occurs there more than twice as often as usual, and violence too is clearly above it.

The family figure of 8.7 therefore says less about who lives there than it seems. Almost two thirds of that pillar consists of the distance to school and childcare, and in Overwhere-Zuid those are short; the share of children itself is not remarkable. Anyone who reads a family neighbourhood into this is reading a walking route and not a population make-up. That the wealth figure sticks at a 3.4 comes above all from the property value and from a social assistance level that is a multiple of the national one.

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no. 24 of 31 in Purmerend

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Is Overwhere-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Overwhere-Zuid comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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.

Total crime

32.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.4 per 1,000

Property crime

10.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 265 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.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 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

€ 311,000

Welfare recipients

31.7 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

51%

Social housing

44%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

50%

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

6,050 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

45%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,936

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.9 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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The figures ⌄

Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

34%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Overwhere-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,050 — 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-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Overwhere-Zuid comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Overwhere-Zuid?

In Overwhere-Zuid the police recorded 265 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (33 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-Zuid calculated?

Overwhere-Zuid scores 4.6 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 Overwhere-Zuid 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.