neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Russische buurt

2,735 residents · postal code 1506 · Part of Oude Haven, Zaanstad

Bottom 13% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The offence rate in the Russische buurt runs at almost six times the national median, and that is not noise: the neighbourhood holds more than two thousand seven hundred residents. Theft is by far the largest item, but the easy story — possessions disappear, the street is otherwise calm — does not hold here, because the violence figure too is a multiple of the national middle. Only burglary stays below it.

Against that stands a 9.4 for amenities, and it is earned: the restaurant is two hundred metres away, the station within a kilometre, supermarket and GP within walking distance.

The 3.1 for quiet and nature completes the picture. Greenery within three hundred metres does not exceed a fifth, the tree canopy is thin and noise is above the median. There is plenty of water, but that is one of five equally weighted components and cannot make up for the rest.

no. 11,426 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 59 of 72 in Zaanstad

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Is Russische buurt 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

140.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

20.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

85.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

8.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 732 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.4 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

2.6 km

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

€ 382,000

Welfare recipients

29.3 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

39%

Social housing

33%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

34%

Built after 2000

24%

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

7,347 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

19%

Trees nearby

Water share

16%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,540

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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.

Primary school

1.0 km

Households with children

22%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

2.1 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Russische buurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 39%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4539%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,347 — 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 Russische buurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Russische buurt comes out at 141 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Russische buurt 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 Russische buurt?

In Russische buurt the police recorded 732 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (141 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 Russische buurt calculated?

Russische buurt scores 3.4 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 Russische buurt 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.