neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Boerejonkerbuurt
275 residents · postal code 1508 · Part of Kogerveldwijk, Zaanstad
Good for children, with a safety question
The Boerejonkerbuurt has almost three hundred residents, and the overall score rests on four pillars: there is no score for amenities. At that size every single report translates into a sizeable rate per thousand residents, and that is the caveat behind the 3.8 for safety — although both violence and property crime are considerably above the national median.
The quiet & nature pillar shows a split. Noise is far above the median and greenery nearby far below it, while the share of open water is exceptionally high; a 5.1 on balance. Wealth & income lands on the same figure, with property value below the median and not a single case of social assistance; Statistics Netherlands does not publish the income distribution here, because there are too few households.
- no. 11,191 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 57 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Boerejonkerbuurt scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Boerejonkerbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boerejonkerbuurt comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Boerejonkerbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 39 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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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
Boerejonkerbuurt has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 7%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,323 — 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 Boerejonkerbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boerejonkerbuurt comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Boerejonkerbuurt 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 Boerejonkerbuurt?
In Boerejonkerbuurt the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (44 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 Boerejonkerbuurt calculated?
Boerejonkerbuurt scores 3.6 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 Boerejonkerbuurt 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 Zaanstad.
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