neighbourhood in De Fryske Marren
Lemmer-Noord
3,550 residents · postal code 8531 · Part of Lemmer, De Fryske Marren
Safe, but everything is a drive away
You do not get a 9.4 overall score from one strong component. Lemmer-Noord scores above the national middle on four of the five pillars, and only amenities lags behind — with one clear cause: the nearest railway station is more than twenty kilometres away, and short walks to school and supermarket cannot make up for that.
Violence, property crime and vandalism are all three below the national middle; only burglary sits exactly on it. That is the profile behind the 9.4 for safety.
The wealth & income pillar is less clear-cut than the figure suggests. The property value is exactly on the national median and social assistance barely below it, while the highest income group is in fact broader than nationally. What lifts the pillar is above all the very low vacancy: of every hundred homes here roughly one stands empty.
- no. 1,086 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 68 in De Fryske Marren
How Lemmer-Noord scores
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Is Lemmer-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lemmer-Noord comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Lemmer-Noord 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, 37 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
Lemmer-Noord has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,030 — 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 Lemmer-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lemmer-Noord comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Lemmer-Noord 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 Lemmer-Noord?
In Lemmer-Noord the police recorded 37 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Lemmer-Noord calculated?
Lemmer-Noord scores 9.4 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 Lemmer-Noord 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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