neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Noorderham
3,395 residents · postal code 1562 · Part of Krommenie West, Zaanstad
Everything close by, little to spend
Almost fourteen per cent of Noorderham's surface is water, against half a per cent nationally, and the share of greenery within three hundred metres is well above the Dutch median. That brings the quiet & nature pillar to 6.9, despite a density of nearly seven thousand residents per square kilometre.
The wealth & income pillar stays at 4.5 and that comes mainly from the social assistance rate: nearly five times the national middle. Property values are below the Dutch median, but vacancy is well under it and the share of low incomes barely above. One component drags the rest down here.
The safety pillar leans on what happens rarely: property crime is a third of the national middle and burglary below it. Violence is the exception, at one and a half times the median — that is the component preventing the 6.5 from coming out higher.
- no. 3,602 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 21 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Noorderham scores
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Is Noorderham a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noorderham comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Noorderham 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, 63 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
Noorderham has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,854 — 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 Noorderham a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noorderham comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Noorderham 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 Noorderham?
In Noorderham the police recorded 63 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 Noorderham calculated?
Noorderham scores 7.9 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 Noorderham 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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