Municipality in Noord-Holland
Not all your customers come from Alkmaar itself. Heiloo, Akersloot and Sint Pancras are six to seven kilometres away, and anyone there looking for a bookkeeper, installer or shop often types their own place name first. Put those places on your site, and you get found where you work.
Nearby
Closest by are Akersloot, Heiloo and Sint Pancras. If you work there too, mention it in a sentence or in a short list with your working area. That way you also reach the customer who does not search for Alkmaar.
Within the municipality lies Oudorp, with 13,720 residents. Further away are Castricum and Purmerend, the latter 10.8 km away.
In figures
According to CBS, Alkmaar had 16,925 business locations on 1 January 2026, up from 13,815 in 2021. That is just over a fifth more.
Alkmaar sits just above the national average, with 149.9 business locations per thousand residents. So it is an ordinary, mixed market. If you start here, you do not need to find a niche to stand out.
112,896
Ranks 5th of 44 municipalities in Noord-Holland
16,925
In 2021: 13,815
149.9
National 144.8
0.56
62.7 thousand jobs, 2025
16percent
CBS 2024, national 17 percent
Trades
Alkmaar's business mix looks a lot like the rest of the country. Business services are the biggest group, with retail and construction next. So you do not stand out by what you do, but by how clearly you show it.
20.4% of business locations
A bookkeeper, designer or adviser in Alkmaar has 3,460 fellow professionals. People who recommend you pass on your name, so it belongs in the title of your homepage. A page per service, a short way of working and a contact form is enough. Your email runs on your own domain.
13.2% of business locations
Shops win with current opening hours and an address that opens straight in the map on a phone. Retail and wholesale is big here, with 2,240 locations. If you also sell online, we host your WordPress online shop.
11.3% of business locations
Construction is a little bigger than average, with 1,905 locations. Your working area belongs at the top, for example Alkmaar, Heiloo and Castricum, with photos of delivered work and a quote form below. We work on search engines by the hour.
Pricing
One fixed price per month, excl. VAT. Personal help over WhatsApp comes with every plan.
Hosting for your website, from WordPress to custom builds
€9 per month, excl. VAT
or €90 per year
Your own mailboxes on your own domain
€6 per month, excl. VAT
or €60 per year
Our pick
Everything in one place, one invoice
€13 per month, excl. VAT
or €130 per year
Questions
Yes, if you have customers there. Someone in Heiloo looking for a bookkeeper types Heiloo. Name the places you go to in a sentence or list, and visitors and search engines know you work near them.
With a first page that says in one sentence who you work for and what you deliver. A photo of yourself and a short way of working make it concrete. Customers often choose the one they can picture.
Not necessarily. Address, opening hours and a clear overview of what you sell already bring in most customers. An online shop fits if you also want to sell outside the region, and we host it on WordPress.
Then we do it. With the Changes add-on you send a message with your change and we make it. If your site runs on WordPress, Maintenance keeps updates and security in order.
Yes, it all works remotely. You send a WhatsApp message or an email between 9:00 and 21:00 and a person answers. Everything is in writing, so you can reread later what we agreed.
A question about your site or email? Send a WhatsApp message and a real person answers. We are available Monday to Sunday, 9:00 to 21:00.
Hi, I have a business in Alkmaar. Can you migrate my site?
Yes, and it's free. What is your domain name?
yourbusiness.com
Great, we'll take care of it and message you when it's done.
Example
An example situation
A self-employed bookkeeper in Alkmaar has a site that was made years ago and has not been touched since. It looks old-fashioned and the email runs through a free address. He wants to move to WordPress, with an email address on his own name.
The files and a list of his email addresses come to us. We migrate everything for free, the old site stays online until he changes the nameservers, and his email moves along. If a yearly contract is still running with his current host, the Switch deal applies: the remaining months, up to 9, are free with us.
By trade
What your website needs depends on what you do. Pick your trade.
Sources: Key figures for districts and neighbourhoods 2025 (86165NED), 2025; Business locations by industry and municipality (81575NED), 1 January 2026 (provisional), compared with 1 January 2021; Employee jobs in December by economic activity and region (83582NED), 2025. Licence: CC BY 4.0, CBS. Distances are as the crow flies.
Mood images, made with AI.
Order right away, or message us on WhatsApp first. We migrate your existing site for free, and personal help over WhatsApp is included.
