neighbourhood in Duiven
Groessen
2,050 residents · postal code 6923 · Part of Groessen, Duiven
Safe, but everything is a drive away
A square kilometre in Groessen holds a little over two hundred people, and that is the engine behind both the 8.3 for quiet & nature and the 4.7 for amenities. The nearest supermarket is almost three kilometres away: shopping here is a drive, not a walk. The primary school is close by, though, and that keeps the families figure at 6.7.
There is a catch in the green. Two thirds of the surroundings are mapped as green, but the tree canopy stays below half the national median — this is open land, not woodland, and that shows in how the quiet pillar is built up. The wealth & income figure of 7.5 leans on property value, which is well above the national median, and on social assistance clearly below it; the income distribution itself barely differs from the national picture.
- no. 2,134 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 13 in Duiven
How Groessen scores
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Is Groessen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Groessen comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Groessen 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, 31 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 Groessen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
232 — 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 Groessen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Groessen comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Groessen 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 Groessen?
In Groessen the police recorded 31 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Groessen calculated?
Groessen scores 8.8 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 Groessen 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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