neighbourhood in Zwolle

Aa-landen-Noord

3,830 residents · postal code 8032 · Part of Aa-landen, Zwolle

Top 19% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Noise in Aa-landen-Noord sits a good five decibels below the Dutch median, and for a neighbourhood inside a city that is unusually quiet. Together with watery surroundings and a tree canopy above the national median that produces a 7.7 for quiet & nature, while the green share stays below it. The quiet does more for the figure here than the greenery.

Among the offences one category deviates. Violence, burglary and theft all sit below the national median, some well below, but vandalism occurs almost twice as often. Because vandalism weighs lightest of the four, the neighbourhood keeps an 8.3 for safety. It is, though, the kind of damage residents notice first.

The amenities pillar is the weak point with a 6.6: GP and restaurant are both just over a kilometre away and the railway station a good four kilometres further. Only the supermarket and the primary school are genuinely round the corner.

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no. 12 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Aa-landen-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Aa-landen-Noord comes out at 20 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

20.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

5.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 90 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

4.4 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

4.2 km

Café

2.9 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

2.6 km

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

€ 381,000

Welfare recipients

23.5 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

70%

Social housing

24%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

92%

Built after 2000

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

4,378 inw/km²

Noise level

46 dB

Green surroundings

47%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,511

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.5 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.

Primary school

0.6 km

Households with children

36%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Aa-landen-Noord looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4519%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+26%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,378 — 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 Aa-landen-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Aa-landen-Noord comes out at 20 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 Aa-landen-Noord?

In Aa-landen-Noord the police recorded 90 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Aa-landen-Noord calculated?

Aa-landen-Noord scores 8.6 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 Aa-landen-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.