neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Poelenburg Zuid

3,875 residents · postal code 1504 · Part of Poelenburg, Zaanstad

Bottom 29% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

For Poelenburg Zuid the amenities pillar is missing entirely, and that is more than a hole in the table: the overall score of 4.6 rests here on four pillars instead of five. So no distance figure feeds into it at all — how far the supermarket or the station lies, we do not know.

What we do know colours the wealth & income pillar sharply. Property values remain well under the Dutch median and the number of social assistance claims per thousand residents is almost five times the national level. Together that yields a 3.0, the lowest figure in the neighbourhood.

The 9.9 for families is its mirror image, and here it does come partly from the residents: almost half of households have children and the share of young children sits above the national median. On offences the neighbourhood sits around the Dutch median, but burglary runs almost three times above it — and burglary is, after violence, the heaviest component of the safety pillar.

no. 9,357 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 41 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 Poelenburg Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Poelenburg Zuid comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

25.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.6 per 1,000

Property crime

5.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 137 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

€ 308,000

Welfare recipients

38.7 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

33%

Social housing

63%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

33%

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

8,749 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

52%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

12%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,777

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

45%

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Poelenburg Zuid has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+10%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,749 — 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 Poelenburg Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Poelenburg Zuid comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Poelenburg Zuid?

In Poelenburg Zuid the police recorded 137 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Poelenburg Zuid calculated?

Poelenburg Zuid scores 4.6 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 Poelenburg 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.