Municipality of Velsen is a great place to live, work and recreate: partly due to its convenient location by the sea, National Park and port and close to Amsterdam, Haarlem and Schiphol Airport. Fishing, offshore and a strong manufacturing industry characterise IJmuiden.
Velsen consists of the towns of Driehuis, IJmuiden, Santpoort-Noord, Santpoort-Zuid, Velsen-Noord, Velzen-Zuid and Velserbroek. The municipality of Velsen has 69,238 inhabitants.
The municipality of Velsen, together with the province of North Holland, ROC Nova College and the companies Zwart Techniek, Crown van Gelder and Tata Steel, is a founding member of Techport.