neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Parkrijk Zuid
4,600 residents · postal code 1567 · Part of Assendelft-Noord, Zaanstad
Parkrijk Zuid is a brand-new family neighbourhood in Assendelft: two-thirds of households have children and a quarter of residents are under fifteen. Safety scores a perfect 10 on crime well below the national median, and the overall grade is 9.3. With 93 percent single-family houses and 72 percent owner-occupancy, this is emphatically family territory. Amenity scores are still missing — the area is too new for them. Home values, at €482,000, run above the national midpoint.
- no. 175 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Parkrijk Zuid scores
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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
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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
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 four equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income and quiet & nature — and see where Parkrijk Zuid lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the four grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
Is Parkrijk Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
Parkrijk Zuid scores 9.6 on safety, based on registered crimes per 1,000 people present (15.0 per year). The national median is around 24.1.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Zaanstad
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zaanstad.
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