neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Parkrijk Noord

4,740 residents · postal code 1567 · Part of Assendelft-Noord, Zaanstad

Top 13% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Parkrijk Noord ranks within the top few dozen in the entire country with a 10.0 for families, and for once that figure is not a distance story: more than half of households have children, more than one in five residents is under fifteen, and barely seven per cent are 65 or older.

The overall score here rests on four pillars, since amenities has no figure and therefore no distances at all. That is a gap you have to fill yourself: on the supermarket, the GP and the station there is nothing here.

The 2.7 for quiet & nature is the counterweight, and it does not come from noise alone. The tree canopy within three hundred metres is a fraction of the national median and greenery lags far behind too. This is new-build at high density: many young residents, few mature trees. On crime, all four types are below the national median.

no. 1,640 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 7 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 Parkrijk Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Parkrijk Noord comes out at 21 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

20.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

7.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 127 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

€ 456,000

Welfare recipients

6.3 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

73%

Social housing

21%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

76%

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

9,713 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,030

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.5 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

56%

Residents under 15

22%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Parkrijk Noord has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 7%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1522%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+7%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
56% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,713 — 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 Parkrijk Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Parkrijk Noord comes out at 21 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 Parkrijk Noord?

In Parkrijk Noord the police recorded 127 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Parkrijk Noord calculated?

Parkrijk Noord scores 9.1 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 Parkrijk 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.