neighbourhood in Emmen
Barger-Oosterveld
2,990 residents · postal code 7826 · Part of Barger-Oosterveld, Emmen
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Barger-Oosterveld scores a 9.8 for safety, and that figure stands firm: all four types of reported offence are below the national median and the total is at less than half of it.
Even so, the quiet & nature pillar stalls at 4.7, while the area is thinly built up and the noise level is below the national median. Greenery in the immediate surroundings is the weak spot: it stays well under the national share, as does the tree canopy. In this model quiet is not measured as the absence of noise alone.
The GP is more than two kilometres away, and that distance pushes the amenities pillar down to 5.9 while supermarket, school and restaurant are all within seven hundred metres.
- no. 3,526 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 75 in Emmen
How Barger-Oosterveld scores
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Is Barger-Oosterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Barger-Oosterveld comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Barger-Oosterveld 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, 32 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 Barger-Oosterveld looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,552 — 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 Barger-Oosterveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Barger-Oosterveld comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Barger-Oosterveld 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 Barger-Oosterveld?
In Barger-Oosterveld the police recorded 32 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 Barger-Oosterveld calculated?
Barger-Oosterveld scores 8.0 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 Barger-Oosterveld 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 Emmen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Emmen.
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