neighbourhood in Groningen

Binnenstad-Oost

4,370 residents · postal code 9711 · Part of Centrum, Groningen

Bottom 3% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Four of the five pillars in Binnenstad-Oost sit at a clear fail and one at a 9.9. That is how an old city centre works: the restaurant is a hundred metres away, supermarket and GP within five hundred, and of everything else there is too little.

Green space within three hundred metres, at fourteen per cent, is less than a quarter of the national median. Combined with more than sixteen thousand residents per square kilometre and a noise level far above the median, that produces a 2.8 for quiet & nature.

Eight in ten households consist of one person and three per cent of residents are under fifteen. In a population like that the families score of 4.9 mainly says something about who does not live here; of the four failing pillars it is the only one that does not end up in the country's bottom tenth.

no. 12,739 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 111 of 120 in Groningen

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Is Binnenstad-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

50.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.1 per 1,000

Property crime

25.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 338 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

0.6 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 253,000

Welfare recipients

43.5 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

61%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

12%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

13%

Built after 2000

21%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

16,293 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

14%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

6,400

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.9 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.9 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Binnenstad-Oost has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 40%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–153%
NL median 14%
15–2540%
NL median 11%
25–4538%
NL median 22%
45–6511%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
80% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
4% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,293 — far more 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 Binnenstad-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Binnenstad-Oost comes out at 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binnenstad-Oost 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 Binnenstad-Oost?

In Binnenstad-Oost the police recorded 338 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (51 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 Binnenstad-Oost calculated?

Binnenstad-Oost scores 2.7 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 Binnenstad-Oost 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.