neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Parkrijk Zuid
4,600 residents · postal code 1567 · Part of Assendelft-Noord, Zaanstad
Everything for children close by, and little room
Parkrijk Zuid ranks second in the entire country for families, and here that figure has an exceptional basis: two in three households have children, a quarter of residents are under fifteen, and barely one in twenty are 65 or older. Such proportions are rare.
The overall score does rest on four pillars, since amenities has no figure and therefore no distances at all — precisely in a place where the need for a school, childcare and a supermarket is most concrete.
The 3.3 for quiet & nature is the counterweight. The tree canopy within three hundred metres is a fraction of the national median: this is new-build where the trees still have to grow. Of the offences only vandalism is above the median; violence and burglary are far below it, and that carries the 9.6 for safety.
- no. 175 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Parkrijk Zuid scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Parkrijk Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Parkrijk Zuid comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Parkrijk Zuid 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, 81 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Zaanstad →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Zaanstad →
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
Parkrijk Zuid has strikingly many children under 15: 25%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1525%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+5%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
66% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,260 — 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 Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Parkrijk Zuid comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Parkrijk Zuid 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 Parkrijk Zuid?
In Parkrijk Zuid the police recorded 81 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Zuid calculated?
Parkrijk Zuid scores 9.9 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 Parkrijk Zuid 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Zaanstad
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zaanstad.
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