Sport in Alkmaar

How many residents of Alkmaar play sport every week and get enough exercise: by age group, among schoolchildren, and how this has changed since 2016. You can see Alkmaar alongside the rest of the Netherlands and alongside similar municipalities, and which sports fields and courts there are.

Sport every week

Alkmaar 62%
GGD Hollands-Noorden 58%
Netherlands 58%

Gets enough exercise

Alkmaar 52%
GGD Hollands-Noorden 51%
Netherlands 49%

By age

Sport every week

18–64, Alkmaar 68%
18–64, Netherlands 63%
65+, Alkmaar 45%
65+, Netherlands 42%

Gets enough exercise

18–64, Alkmaar 56%
18–64, Netherlands 52%
65+, Alkmaar 40%
65+, Netherlands 41%

Pupils

Alkmaar 74%
Netherlands 76%

Since 2016

Alongside other municipalities

Comparable municipalities

Alkmaar 62%
Leeuwarden 60%
Deventer 58%
Alphen aan den Rijn 56%
Ede 56%
Venlo 52%

Pitches and courts

	Alkmaar	Per 10.000 residents	Netherlands
Football pitches	80	7,1	7,3
Tennis courts	49	4,3	5,1
Padel courts	6	0,5	0,6
Hockey pitches	3	0,3	0,6
Basketball courts	15	1,3	1,2
Buitenfitness	2	0,2	0,6
Skate parks	4	0,4	0,4

Sources: CBS/RIVM/GGD's, Health Monitor for Adults and Older People 2024, adults; in 2016 from 19 years old. The line on a bar is the margin of error (95%); pupils: Youth Health Monitor 2023, grades 2 and 4, weekly sport at a club or gym; comparable = equally urban and roughly equal in size, CBS, Key Figures for Neighbourhoods and Districts; pitches and courts: © OpenStreetMap contributors, as they appear on the map.

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