neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Waterrijk
3,265 residents · postal code 1566 · Part of Assendelft-Noord, Zaanstad
Everything for children close by, and little room
Waterrijk comes out at 9.9 overall, and that figure rests on four pillars instead of five: there is no score for amenities, and with it no distance to shop, GP, school or station. Anyone placing this neighbourhood alongside another needs to know that — nothing here is established about accessibility.
The families pillar reaches 9.9 and the population matches: more than half of households have children living in them and only a small share of residents are 65 or older.
The safety pillar comes out at 9.3 with all four types of offence below the national median and burglary at a fraction of it. The quiet & nature score of 5.1 is dragged down by a noise level above the middle and a thin tree canopy, while the share of water is a multiple of the national median.
- no. 246 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Waterrijk 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 Waterrijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterrijk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waterrijk is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 64 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
Waterrijk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
53% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,020 — 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 Waterrijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterrijk comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waterrijk is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Waterrijk?
In Waterrijk the police recorded 64 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Waterrijk calculated?
Waterrijk scores 9.9 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 Waterrijk 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Zaanstad
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zaanstad.
More about this area
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