neighbourhood in Schagen

Schagen-Centrum

2,415 residents · postal code 1741 · Part of Schagen-Centrum, Schagen

Bottom 20% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Amenities scores a 10 in Schagen-Centrum and safety a 2.8. That is the same location, measured twice. Supermarket, restaurant and station are all within a kilometre, and reported offences run at three times the national middle.

That figure lies mostly in theft, which occurs almost four times as often as nationally, but violence is more than four times above the median too. So this is not purely a story about shoppers.

The 3.6 for wealth & income has a broad base: property value far under the national median, few high and many low incomes, social assistance more than double and more vacancy than usual. A third of residents are 65 or older, which also explains the modest families score despite a primary school around the corner.

no. 10,552 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 59 of 72 in Schagen

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Is Schagen-Centrum 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

72.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

9.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

33.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 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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The figures ⌄

Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.3 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.5 km

Motorway ramp

0.6 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

€ 321,000

Welfare recipients

16.6 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

51%

Social housing

28%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

57%

Built after 2000

21%

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

4,733 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,043

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.0 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

0.4 km

Households with children

20%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schagen-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+34%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,733 — 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 Schagen-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schagen-Centrum comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schagen-Centrum 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 Schagen-Centrum?

In Schagen-Centrum the police recorded 305 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (72 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 Schagen-Centrum calculated?

Schagen-Centrum scores 3.9 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 Schagen-Centrum 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.