neighbourhood in Zaanstad

Zaans Hout

3,750 residents · postal code 1507 · Part of Nieuw West, Zaanstad

Bottom 5% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

Zaans Hout has no amenities score, so its overall score of 2.8 rests on four pillars. Of those four, safety is the highest at 5.9, which is surprising: the number of recorded offences here is well above the national median.

The breakdown explains it. Two-thirds of all reports are property crime, while violence, burglary and vandalism all stay below the median. What goes wrong here goes wrong with belongings; the reported offences tied to personal safety are no more common than elsewhere.

The families score of 3.6 cannot be attributed to distance from the available data — the distances are missing here entirely. What is on record: a quarter of households have children. Property values sit close to the national median, but social assistance is twice above it.

no. 12,493 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 64 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 Zaans Hout 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

41.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

27.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 213 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

€ 402,000

Welfare recipients

16.0 per 1,000

Owner-occupied

34%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

27%

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

8,818 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,699

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.3 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

25%

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Zaans Hout has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 48%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4548%
NL median 22%
45–6518%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,818 — 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 Zaans Hout a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Zaans Hout comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zaans Hout 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 Zaans Hout?

In Zaans Hout the police recorded 213 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Zaans Hout calculated?

Zaans Hout scores 2.8 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 Zaans Hout 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.