neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Wormerveer Noord

3,055 residents · postal code 1521 · Part of Wormerveer, Zaanstad

Bottom 2% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

The overall score for Wormerveer Noord rests on four pillars instead of five: there is no figure for amenities, and with it no distance to a shop, a doctor or a station.

What is left drags it down. The 2.8 for wealth & income does not come from one outlier: property values sit well below the national median and the number of social assistance claims is more than six times the median. Nor does one type of crime explain the rest — violence, burglary, theft and vandalism all four sit above the national median, violence most of all. That is a different picture from a busy shopping street where bicycles disappear; here it runs across the board.

The 7.3 for families stands out against that. That pillar leans mainly on the distance to school and childcare, not on how many children live there — and it is precisely those distances that are missing here, which makes the figure hard to explain to anyone reading the table below it.

no. 12,943 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 68 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 Wormerveer Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Wormerveer Noord comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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

33.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.8 per 1,000

Property crime

10.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 124 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

€ 304,000

Welfare recipients

49.1 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

25%

Social housing

73%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

51%

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

8,968 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

34%

Trees nearby

Water share

15%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,160

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.5 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

34%

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Wormerveer Noord has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+21%
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
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,968 — 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 Wormerveer Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Wormerveer Noord comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Wormerveer Noord?

In Wormerveer Noord the police recorded 124 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (33 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 Wormerveer Noord calculated?

Wormerveer Noord scores 2.6 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 Wormerveer Noord 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.