neighbourhood in Emmen
Emmen over 't spoor
2,020 residents · postal code 7822 · Part of Emmen-Centrum Oost, Emmen
Good for children, with a safety question
With a 3.0 for safety, Emmen over 't spoor belongs to the weakest part of the country on that pillar, and the breakdown leaves little room for softening. Property crime runs at more than double the national median and accounts for nearly half of all recorded offences, but violence and vandalism also rise above it. So this is not only a matter of things going missing.
Against that stands a 7.2 for quiet & nature, less obvious than it looks at this density. The tree canopy covers more than three times as much as in the median Dutch neighbourhood — this is a green-laid-out place, urban though it is.
Wealth & income lags behind across the board: property value below the median, fewer high and more low incomes than nationally, and a social assistance rate above twenty per thousand residents. With the primary school five hundred metres away and a families score of 8.1, the closeness of education is what this neighbourhood does have to offer.
- no. 9,094 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 29 of 75 in Emmen
How Emmen over 't spoor scores
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Is Emmen over 't spoor a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmen over 't spoor comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Emmen over 't spoor is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 128 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 Emmen over 't spoor looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,575 — 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 Emmen over 't spoor a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmen over 't spoor comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Emmen over 't spoor is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Emmen over 't spoor?
In Emmen over 't spoor the police recorded 128 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (45 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 Emmen over 't spoor calculated?
Emmen over 't spoor scores 4.8 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 Emmen over 't spoor 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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