neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Prins Hendrikbuurt
2,950 residents · postal code 1501 · Part of Zaandam Zuid, Zaanstad
No real strong point
The overall score for Prins Hendrikbuurt rests on four pillars rather than five: no figure is available for amenities, and the distances beneath it are missing too. What remains — safety, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — all sits between 3.5 and 3.8.
That is the striking thing about this Zaandam neighbourhood: there is no outlier explaining the low total and no strong side to offset anything. Four comparably weak scores together produce a 2.5, because there is nothing to set against them.
The wealth data is partly empty as well. Statistics Netherlands does not publish incomes and vacancy where there are too few households, so only the property value and the social assistance rate are visible, and they point the same way.
The water is remarkable: more than a tenth of the surface, against a national median of half a per cent. That helps the quiet pillar, but the scarce greenery and the noise weigh more heavily.
- no. 13,022 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 71 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Prins Hendrikbuurt 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 Prins Hendrikbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Prins Hendrikbuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Prins Hendrikbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 177 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
Prins Hendrikbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,422 — 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 Prins Hendrikbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Prins Hendrikbuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Prins Hendrikbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Prins Hendrikbuurt?
In Prins Hendrikbuurt the police recorded 177 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Prins Hendrikbuurt calculated?
Prins Hendrikbuurt scores 2.5 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 Prins Hendrikbuurt 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.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zaanstad.
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