neighbourhood in Coevorden
Schoonoord
2,005 residents · postal code 7848 · Part of Sleen, Coevorden
Plenty of space, less prosperity
Almost fourteen kilometres to the nearest railway station, and still a 6.9 for amenities: in Schoonoord the supermarket, GP, restaurant and primary school all sit within five hundred metres of each other. Whoever lives here has the village within walking distance and the train not at all.
The quiet & nature pillar stands at 8.5, the highest of the five. Traffic noise is almost three decibels below the national median and the tree canopy is twice the national norm; the greenery itself sits around the middle.
The outlier downwards is wealth & income, at 3.2. It is not mixed but consistent: property values far below the national median, few high-income households, almost half of them on a low income, and a rate of social assistance nearly four times the national one. The fact that new homes have gone up here this century changes little about that.
- no. 5,629 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 61 in Coevorden
How Schoonoord scores
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Is Schoonoord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schoonoord comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schoonoord 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, 33 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
Schoonoord has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,189 — 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 Schoonoord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schoonoord comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Schoonoord 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 Schoonoord?
In Schoonoord the police recorded 33 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 Schoonoord calculated?
Schoonoord scores 6.8 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 Schoonoord 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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