neighbourhood in Emmen
Emmer-Erfscheidenveen
1,780 residents · postal code 7881 · Part of Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Emmer-Erfscheidenveen scores 7.8 for safety, and taking that figure apart turns up something awkward. Burglary is almost absent here and noticeably less goes missing than is usual nationally, but violent offences sit above the national median. Violence carries the heaviest weight in that pillar; the score still comes out high because every other category is low. A safe place to leave your bike, then, with a caveat.
The wealth & income pillar stalls at 4.3, and that is not down to one outlier: property value is well below the national middle, more than four in ten households fall in the lowest income group and social assistance runs above the median. Four out of five homes being owner-occupied changes little — ownership barely counts in that pillar.
- no. 10,869 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 45 of 75 in Emmen
How Emmer-Erfscheidenveen scores
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Is Emmer-Erfscheidenveen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 44 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 Emmer-Erfscheidenveen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
606 — 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 Emmer-Erfscheidenveen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Emmer-Erfscheidenveen?
In Emmer-Erfscheidenveen the police recorded 44 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Emmer-Erfscheidenveen calculated?
Emmer-Erfscheidenveen scores 3.8 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 Emmer-Erfscheidenveen 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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