neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Kalf Noord

2,280 residents · postal code 1509 · Part of Zaandam Noord, Zaanstad

Bottom 19% in the Netherlands

Safe, but few children

A third of the surface of Kalf Noord is water. That is exceptionally much, and it keeps the quiet & nature pillar at 5.4 despite little green cover within three hundred metres and a sound level above the national middle.

For this neighbourhood the amenities pillar is missing; the overall score of 3.9 therefore rests on four pillars instead of five, and all distances are absent. The income distribution and vacancy are missing too: with too few households, Statistics Netherlands does not publish them. What is left of wealth & income is a property value just under the national median alongside a social assistance rate at almost three times the middle.

The 3.4 for families fits the age structure — almost a third of residents are 65 or over and the share of children is below the national middle. About the distance to schools nothing can be said here. Of the four types of offence only burglary comes out above the median.

no. 10,602 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 50 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 Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kalf Noord comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kalf Noord 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.

Total crime

16.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

5.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 44 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

€ 386,000

Welfare recipients

21.9 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

35%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

68%

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

4,898 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

38%

Trees nearby

Water share

33%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,024

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.3 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

29%

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kalf Noord has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+31%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,898 — 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 Kalf Noord a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Kalf Noord?

In Kalf Noord the police recorded 44 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 Kalf Noord calculated?

Kalf Noord scores 3.9 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 Noord 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.