neighbourhood in Zwolle
Het Noorden
1,735 residents · postal code 8021 · Part of Diezerpoort, Zwolle
Everything close by, little to spend
Nearly half the homes in Het Noorden were built after 2000, and yet the wealth & income pillar comes to a 2.6. That score is weak across the board: property values are around half the national median, the share of high incomes less than half the national level, the share of low incomes well above it, and the rate of social assistance nearly ten times the middle. Only vacancy sits exactly on the median.
New building and low values therefore go together here, and that is unusual enough to note.
Amenities are excellent: supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within eight hundred metres, good for a 9.6. Three-quarters of households here consist of one person.
- no. 12,537 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 70 of 73 in Zwolle
How Het Noorden scores
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Is Het Noorden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Noorden comes out at 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Noorden 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, 157 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
Het Noorden has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 25%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–2525%
NL median 11%
- 25–4541%
NL median 22%
- 45–6516%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
76% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,552 — 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 Het Noorden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Noorden comes out at 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Noorden 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 Het Noorden?
In Het Noorden the police recorded 157 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (54 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 Het Noorden calculated?
Het Noorden 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 Het Noorden 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zwolle.
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