neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Westerkoog Midden

2,635 residents · postal code 1541 · Part of Westerkoog, Zaanstad

Top 36% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

For Westerkoog Midden the amenities pillar is missing: there is no score, and none of the measured distances is known. The overall 7.3 therefore rests on four pillars instead of five, and says nothing about access.

The income shares are missing too — with too few households, Statistics Netherlands does not publish them. What is there: property values almost exactly at the national median and a social assistance rate less than half the national middle. Together good for a 5.9.

The quiet pillar comes out at 6.1, with a sizeable part of the surface being water and more greenery than is usual nationally; the noise level, by contrast, is above the median. Three of the four types of reported offence are below the national middle and burglary sits exactly on it — that is where the 7.6 for safety comes from.

no. 4,657 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 25 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 Westerkoog Midden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Westerkoog Midden comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

17.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

4.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 53 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

€ 421,000

Welfare recipients

3.8 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

63%

Social housing

19%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

83%

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

6,131 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

61%

Trees nearby

Water share

12%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,508

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.0 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

37%

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Westerkoog Midden has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+29%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,131 — 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 Westerkoog Midden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Westerkoog Midden comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Westerkoog Midden?

In Westerkoog Midden the police recorded 53 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Westerkoog Midden calculated?

Westerkoog Midden scores 7.3 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 Westerkoog Midden 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.