neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Rosmolenbuurt Oost

2,540 residents · postal code 1502 · Part of Rosmolenwijk, Zaanstad

Bottom 3% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

Rosmolenbuurt Oost has no score for amenities, so its overall 2.7 rests on four pillars rather than five. That total is among the lowest in the country, and the reason is in the offence figures: violence is almost four times as frequent as in the average Dutch neighbourhood and theft more than two and a half times.

The wealth & income pillar comes to 3.7. The social assistance rate here stands at more than four times the national one, and property values stay below the median. The income breakdown is missing, because Statistics Netherlands does not publish it where there are too few households.

Quiet & nature and families both sit around the national midpoint, the only two components that do not stand out. They prop up an overall score that is otherwise set entirely by the safety figures.

no. 12,690 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 65 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 Rosmolenbuurt Oost a safe 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

49.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

8.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

25.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 178 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

€ 371,000

Welfare recipients

35.4 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

32%

Social housing

65%

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

6,317 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,997

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

30%

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Rosmolenbuurt Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+23%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,317 — 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 Rosmolenbuurt Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Rosmolenbuurt Oost comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rosmolenbuurt Oost 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 Rosmolenbuurt Oost?

In Rosmolenbuurt Oost the police recorded 178 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (50 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 Rosmolenbuurt Oost calculated?

Rosmolenbuurt Oost scores 2.7 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 Rosmolenbuurt Oost 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.