neighbourhood in Purmerend
Westbeemster
775 residents · postal code 1464 · Part of Beemster, Purmerend
Well-off, and well out of town
Westbeemster lies in open polder country and scores accordingly: an 8.6 for quiet & nature, with noise levels far below the national median and much of the surrounding area green. The tree canopy is minimal, but here it does not outweigh the rest.
Amenities get no further than a 3.0 — the supermarket and GP are a good three kilometres away — and the families pillar stalls at a 4.0 with a school almost two kilometres off. What the neighbourhood does have is wealth: a 9.1, with property value well above the median, no social assistance and a top income group covering a quarter of all households.
- no. 6,190 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 31 in Purmerend
How Westbeemster scores
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Is Westbeemster a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Westbeemster comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Westbeemster 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, 16 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 Westbeemster looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
42 — far less 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 Westbeemster a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Westbeemster comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Westbeemster 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 Westbeemster?
In Westbeemster the police recorded 16 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Westbeemster calculated?
Westbeemster scores 6.4 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 Westbeemster 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.
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