neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Kalf

3,825 residents · postal code 1509 · Part of Zaandam Noord, Zaanstad

Bottom 42% in the Netherlands

Plenty of space, less prosperity

For Kalf the amenities pillar is missing, and that means something concrete: the overall score of 5.6 rests on four pillars instead of five, and no distance to a supermarket, GP or station feeds into it at all. Anyone selecting on reach will find no answer here.

What does stand out is the quiet & nature pillar. Noise here sits a good eight decibels above the Dutch median — considerable — and yet there is a 7.4. That comes from the other components: almost a quarter of the area is water, against half a per cent nationally, the green share sits above the middle and building density is low for an urban neighbourhood. Four of the five components offset the noise.

The offences show a sharp contrast. Residential burglary hardly occurs here, at a fraction of the national level, while violence occurs twice as often as in the average neighbourhood. Because violence is the heaviest component of that pillar, safety stalls at a 5.5.

no. 7,688 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 35 of 72 in Zaanstad

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Amenities

no grade

Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.

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Is Kalf a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kalf comes out at 31 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.

Total crime

30.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

10.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 152 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 392,000

Welfare recipients

15.7 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

36%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

71%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

2,197 inw/km²

Noise level

60 dB

Green surroundings

58%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

23%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

946

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Households with children

35%

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kalf has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+28%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,197 — 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 Kalf a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kalf comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Kalf?

In Kalf the police recorded 152 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 Kalf calculated?

Kalf scores 5.6 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 Kalf 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.