neighbourhood in Achtkarspelen
Surhuizum
845 residents · postal code 9283 · Part of Zuid, Achtkarspelen
Safe, but everything is a drive away
The primary school in Surhuizum is four hundred metres away, the nearest supermarket almost ten times as far. That is the whole story behind two scores that lie far apart: a 7.9 for families and a 3.1 for amenities. Anyone living here without a car depends on what the village itself has.
Each of the recorded offence types is below the national median, and for theft and burglary it is a fraction of it — hence the 8.8 for safety. Quiet & nature scores highly too: around the neighbourhood four fifths of the surface is green, though the map counts arable land and pasture as well. The wealth & income score lags behind, mainly because of the low property value; vacancy, by contrast, is minimal.
- no. 7,625 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 24 in Achtkarspelen
How Surhuizum scores
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Is Surhuizum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Surhuizum comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Surhuizum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 9 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
The age profile of Surhuizum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
868 — far less 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 Surhuizum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Surhuizum comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Surhuizum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Surhuizum?
In Surhuizum the police recorded 9 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Surhuizum calculated?
Surhuizum scores 5.6 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 Surhuizum 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Achtkarspelen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Achtkarspelen.
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