neighbourhood in Zaanstad
Wormerveer Zuid
3,805 residents · postal code 1521 · Part of Wormerveer, Zaanstad
Everything close by, little space
Noise in Wormerveer Zuid sits nearly ten decibels above the Dutch median, and that is this profile's sharpest outlier. Combined with little greenery within three hundred metres and the thinnest canopy on this page it produces a 3.3 for quiet & nature — despite a sixth of the area consisting of water.
The primary school here is a kilometre away, and that is the main reason the families pillar stalls at a 5.1. School and childcare distance together make up nearly two thirds of that calculation, and the nearness of supermarket and GP can do nothing about it: those count in a different pillar.
Among the offences the picture is one-sided. Theft occurs a good twice as often here as nationally, while burglary sits exactly at the Dutch median and violence slightly above. The railway station is eight hundred metres away, which together with short distances to shop and restaurant yields a 9.0 for amenities — by far this neighbourhood's strongest figure.
- no. 10,639 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 52 of 72 in Zaanstad
How Wormerveer Zuid scores
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Is Wormerveer Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wormerveer Zuid comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Wormerveer Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 239 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
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
Wormerveer Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,661 — 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 Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wormerveer Zuid comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Wormerveer Zuid 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 Wormerveer Zuid?
In Wormerveer Zuid the police recorded 239 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Zuid calculated?
Wormerveer Zuid scores 3.9 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 Wormerveer Zuid 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.
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