neighbourhood in Groningen
Gravenburg
2,105 residents · postal code 9746 · Part of Hoogkerk e.o., Groningen
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Seven per cent of Gravenburg's residents are over sixty-five, against nearly a fifth nationally, and close to two thirds of households have children. Almost the entire housing stock was built after 2000. That is the backdrop to an overall score among the highest eight hundred in the country.
The exception is amenities, at 4.4. The supermarket is over two kilometres away and the station five; those are distances where a car makes the difference. The same location works the other way for quiet & nature: plenty of greenery around, little noise.
Strikingly, the tree canopy in Gravenburg lags far behind, at roughly a quarter of the national level. The green lifting the quiet & nature pillar here is largely low growth and open land — not crowns above the street.
- no. 811 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 120 in Groningen
How Gravenburg scores
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Is Gravenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Gravenburg comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Gravenburg is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 25 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
Gravenburg has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 7%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6539%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
2.9 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
62% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,049 — 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 Gravenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Gravenburg comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Gravenburg is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Gravenburg?
In Gravenburg the police recorded 25 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Gravenburg calculated?
Gravenburg scores 9.5 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 Gravenburg 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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