neighbourhood in Purmerend
Zuidoostbeemster
4,540 residents · postal code 1461 · Part of Beemster, Purmerend
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Zuidoostbeemster has fewer than three hundred and fifty residents per square kilometre, and that shows in almost every figure: a 9.8 for safety, a 9.9 overall, three quarters of the surroundings within walking distance green.
The wealth & income pillar points the same way on nearly every component — high property value, many top incomes, few low ones, hardly any social assistance — with one exception: vacancy sits exactly on the national average and is therefore no better than ordinary.
Where the neighbourhood pays is access, and that stays visible in the 5.9 for amenities: the supermarket is more than one and a half kilometres away, the GP slightly closer. The families pillar feels it too. Plenty of households here have children, but the primary school is almost a kilometre away, and the distances to school and childcare weigh more heavily in the score than the number of children does.
- no. 188 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 31 in Purmerend
How Zuidoostbeemster scores
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Is Zuidoostbeemster a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuidoostbeemster comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zuidoostbeemster 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, 89 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
Zuidoostbeemster has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
345 — 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 Zuidoostbeemster a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zuidoostbeemster comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Zuidoostbeemster 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 Zuidoostbeemster?
In Zuidoostbeemster the police recorded 89 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Zuidoostbeemster calculated?
Zuidoostbeemster scores 9.9 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 Zuidoostbeemster 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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