neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Noorderhoofdbuurt

2,265 residents · postal code 1561 · Part of Krommenie Oost, Zaanstad

Top 30% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Two pillars at 9.5 and yet an overall score of 7.8: the Noorderhoofdbuurt shows that the total is not an average of what stands out. Safety and amenities both score high — not one type of offence reaches the national middle, and supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within five hundred metres.

The brake is wealth & income, at 3.7. The property value stays below the national median, the share of high incomes is small and the social assistance rate stands at more than four times the middle; only vacancy is exactly at the national level.

The primary school is more than a kilometre away and only a quarter of households have children, which keeps families at 5.5. More than half of households here consist of one person — this is a neighbourhood of people living alone with everything within walking distance.

no. 3,832 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 22 of 72 in Zaanstad

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Is Noorderhoofdbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Noorderhoofdbuurt comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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

17.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

6.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.2 per 1,000

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 ⌄

Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

2.5 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.9 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.0 km

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

€ 344,000

Welfare recipients

35.3 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

34%

Social housing

52%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

47%

Built after 2000

30%

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

5,542 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

Water share

13%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,170

Fine particles (PM2.5)

11.1 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.

Primary school

1.2 km

Households with children

26%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Noorderhoofdbuurt has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 8%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+24%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,542 — 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 Noorderhoofdbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Noorderhoofdbuurt comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Noorderhoofdbuurt?

In Noorderhoofdbuurt the police recorded 51 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 Noorderhoofdbuurt calculated?

Noorderhoofdbuurt scores 7.8 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 Noorderhoofdbuurt 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.