neighbourhood in Velsen
Bastionbuurt
2,200 residents · postal code 1991 · Part of Velserbroek, Velsen
Everything close by, little space
The primary school in Bastionbuurt is eight hundred metres away and the families score still stalls at 4.9. That is the reverse of most neighbourhoods: here it is not the distance but who lives there. More than a third of residents are 65 or over and the share of children under fifteen stays below the national level.
The amenities are exceptional. GP, supermarket and restaurant are all three a few hundred metres away, good for a 9.6 — a figure few neighbourhoods reach.
The flip side sits with quiet & nature. The greenery within three hundred metres stays well below the median, the tree canopy is barely there and the noise level is above the middle. At almost eight thousand residents per square kilometre that is no surprise, but it does make the 3.5 the clear weakness here.
- no. 5,765 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 36 of 60 in Velsen
How Bastionbuurt scores
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Is Bastionbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bastionbuurt comes out at 28 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.
In 2025, 78 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
Bastionbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,895 — 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 Bastionbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bastionbuurt comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.2. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 28 records per 1,000, 1.0 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 Bastionbuurt?
In Bastionbuurt the police recorded 78 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Bastionbuurt calculated?
Bastionbuurt scores 6.7 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 Bastionbuurt 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Velsen.
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