neighbourhood in Emmen
Delftlanden
2,600 residents · postal code 7813 · Part of Delftlanden, Emmen
Well-off, and well out of town
Delftlanden was built entirely after 2000 and it shows in everything: not a single recorded social assistance payment, a wide share of high incomes and a property value above the national median produce an 8.0 for wealth & income. Only vacancy sits above the median.
The families score sticks at 6.4 even though more than half of households have children. That comes from the primary school, a good kilometre and a half away — school distance is the heaviest component of this pillar and weighs more than the share of children. The safety score of 5.6 is the second surprise: violence and above all property crime sit above the national median, in a neighbourhood that otherwise looks quiet on every front.
- no. 7,689 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 18 of 75 in Emmen
How Delftlanden scores
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Is Delftlanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Delftlanden comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 88 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
Delftlanden has strikingly many children under 15: 28%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1528%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
55% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,123 — 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 Delftlanden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Delftlanden comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Delftlanden?
In Delftlanden the police recorded 88 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Delftlanden calculated?
Delftlanden scores 5.6 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 Delftlanden 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 Emmen.
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