neighbourhood in Groningen
Garmerwolde
505 residents · postal code 9798 · Part of Ten Boer e.o., Groningen
Safe, but few children
In Garmerwolde the GP, the restaurant and the primary school are all within a kilometre, and still the families pillar sticks at a 4.1. School distance cannot be the reason here; it lies in the age structure, with almost three in ten residents aged 65 or older and a small share of children.
The supermarket is the exception to those short distances and is kilometres away, and together with a station at eight kilometres that holds amenities at a 4.8.
The wealth & income pillar is divided: property value is below the national median and the social assistance rate above it, while there are actually more high-income households than average and vacancy is close to zero. A 6.1 here is the balance of opposing signals.
- no. 5,873 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 35 of 120 in Groningen
How Garmerwolde scores
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Is Garmerwolde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Garmerwolde 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, 10 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
Garmerwolde has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
88 — 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 Garmerwolde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Garmerwolde 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 Garmerwolde?
In Garmerwolde the police recorded 10 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 Garmerwolde calculated?
Garmerwolde scores 6.6 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 Garmerwolde 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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