neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Hembrugterrein
230 residents · postal code 1505 · Part of Oude Haven, Zaanstad
Good for children, with a safety question
Just over two hundred people live on the Hembrugterrein, and the offence rate there is far above the national median. Almost all of it is property crime — more than five times the national level — while violence is only slightly above and burglary below. At these numbers that says more about things going missing than about safety on the street.
The families score is a 10.0, and the shares of children account for much of it: more than half of all households have children and many young children live here. There is no figure for amenities, so the overall score rests on four pillars. Wealth & income comes out at a 7.2, with property value almost exactly on the national median and no cases of social assistance.
- no. 2,376 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Hembrugterrein 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 Hembrugterrein a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hembrugterrein comes out at 69 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hembrugterrein 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, 51 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
Hembrugterrein has strikingly many children under 15: 26%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1526%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
54% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
459 — 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 Hembrugterrein a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hembrugterrein comes out at 69 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hembrugterrein 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 Hembrugterrein?
In Hembrugterrein the police recorded 51 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (69 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 Hembrugterrein calculated?
Hembrugterrein scores 8.6 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 Hembrugterrein 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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