neighbourhood in Wormerland
Molenbuurt
3,445 residents · postal code 1531 · Part of Wormer, Wormerland
Everything close by, little to spend
Molenbuurt in Wormer shows how far two pillars can diverge at the same address. The families pillar reaches 8.7 and amenities 8.9 — GP and primary school are four hundred metres away, the station two kilometres. The wealth & income pillar stays at 4.0.
That wealth figure is not weak everywhere. More than four in ten households have a low income, the social assistance rate is more than three times the national one, and property values too stay below the Dutch middle — but vacancy is actually below the median. Little stands empty here; it is spending power that lags behind.
The safety score of 6.8 hides one outlier. The total number of reported offences is far below the national middle and violence and vandalism stay under it, but burglary is more than three times the median. That is the only component working against this neighbourhood.
- no. 4,237 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 13 in Wormerland
How Molenbuurt scores
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Is Molenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenbuurt comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Molenbuurt 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, 66 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 Molenbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,115 — 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 Molenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Molenbuurt comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Molenbuurt 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 Molenbuurt?
In Molenbuurt the police recorded 66 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 Molenbuurt calculated?
Molenbuurt scores 7.6 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 Molenbuurt 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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