neighbourhood in Groningen

Binnenstad-Zuid

7,085 residents · postal code 9711 · Part of Centrum, Groningen

Bottom 3% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

A 10 for amenities and a 2.5 for safety: Binnenstad-Zuid in Groningen stands at both ends of the same ranking. Everything here lies within a few hundred metres, and at the same time more than five times as many offences per resident are registered as the national average, with theft by far the largest item.

The families score is for once an honest reflection. More than four in five households consist of one person and virtually nobody has children; the 4.5 that comes out stays low despite a primary school within walking distance, and that is down to the share of children.

What a reader does not expect in a city centre: more than one in ten homes stands vacant, well over twice the Dutch level, and the property value stays considerably below the national median.

no. 12,761 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 112 of 120 in Groningen

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Is Binnenstad-Zuid 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

136.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

17.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.8 per 1,000

Property crime

81.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 1,780 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

1.3 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 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

€ 275,000

Welfare recipients

31.1 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

65%

Vacancy

11%

Owner-occupied

12%

Social housing

24%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

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

12,855 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

12%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

6,765

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

0.8 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Binnenstad-Zuid has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 49%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–151%
NL median 14%
15–2549%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–659%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
1.2 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
83% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
2% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,855 — 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-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Binnenstad-Zuid comes out at 136 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Binnenstad-Zuid 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-Zuid?

In Binnenstad-Zuid the police recorded 1,780 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (136 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-Zuid calculated?

Binnenstad-Zuid 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-Zuid 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.