neighbourhood in Eemsdelta
Bierum
650 residents · postal code 9906 · Part of Buitengebied Noord-Bierum, Eemsdelta
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Bierum has no property value in the data, and that is more than a detail: this is the heaviest component of the wealth & income pillar, so the 3.9 recorded there rests on the remaining components. They point downwards — the share of high incomes is smaller than nationally, the share of low incomes larger, the social assistance rate a good twice the median, and one in ten addresses stands empty.
The safety score is the mirror image. At 9.4, Bierum belongs to the calmest part of the country: all four crime types are below the national median, violence at roughly half.
Amenities cost time here. Supermarket, GP and school are all three around two kilometres away, and that pushes both the amenities and the families pillar into mid-table. Only the restaurant is close by.
- no. 8,071 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 78 in Eemsdelta
How Bierum scores
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Is Bierum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bierum comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Bierum 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, 4 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 Bierum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,740 — 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 Bierum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bierum comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Bierum 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 Bierum?
In Bierum the police recorded 4 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Bierum calculated?
Bierum scores 5.4 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 Bierum 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Eemsdelta.
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