neighbourhood in Waterland
Monnickendam
2,030 residents · postal code 1141 · Part of Monnickendam, Waterland
Well-off, schools and childcare further off
Monnickendam has a property value far above the national median and little social assistance, but the 7.5 for wealth & income is not equally strong in every component: vacancy is above the national median, which stands out given an expensive housing stock. The income distribution does point the same way as the house prices.
The 5.2 for families cannot be explained by distance, because the primary school is six hundred metres away. What pushes the score down is the population make-up: barely one in nine residents is under fifteen and almost half of households consist of one person. On top of that the station is nearly ten kilometres away while restaurants and the supermarket are around the corner — that contrast between near and far is what a 7.0 for amenities means in practice.
- no. 4,658 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 19 in Waterland
How Monnickendam scores
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Is Monnickendam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Monnickendam comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 77 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 Monnickendam looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,362 — around the 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 Monnickendam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Monnickendam comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Monnickendam?
In Monnickendam the police recorded 77 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Monnickendam calculated?
Monnickendam scores 7.3 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 Monnickendam 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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