neighbourhood in Zwolle

Binnenstad-Noord

1,030 residents · postal code 8011 · Part of Binnenstad, Zwolle

Bottom 5% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Binnenstad-Noord in Zwolle records more than five times as many offences per thousand residents as the national middle, and three-quarters of those are property crime. But the bike-thief frame does not cover it here: violence too is around four times the median. Both move upward, and together they produce a 2.6 for safety.

Against that stands a 9.5 for amenities — a restaurant at a hundred metres, a supermarket at five hundred. That is the trade-off of a historic centre, and the quiet & nature pillar pays its share: greenery within three hundred metres is a third of the national middle.

The housing stock is almost entirely flats and two in three households consist of one person. Children are rare here, and that weighs on the families pillar despite a school a kilometre away.

no. 12,506 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 68 of 73 in Zwolle

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Is Binnenstad-Noord 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

128.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

9.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

95.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 316 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

0.9 km

Train station

1.5 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 302,000

Welfare recipients

29.1 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

22%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

16%

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

9,373 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

17%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,794

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 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

1.0 km

Households with children

Childcare

1.0 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Binnenstad-Noord has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 55%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–152%
NL median 14%
15–2519%
NL median 11%
25–4555%
NL median 22%
45–6514%
NL median 28%
65+10%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
67% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
6% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,373 — 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 Binnenstad-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Binnenstad-Noord comes out at 128 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binnenstad-Noord 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 Binnenstad-Noord?

In Binnenstad-Noord the police recorded 316 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (128 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 Binnenstad-Noord calculated?

Binnenstad-Noord 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 Binnenstad-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.