neighbourhood in Groningen
Indische buurt
8,525 residents · postal code 9715 · Part of Oud-Noord, Groningen
Everything close by, little to spend
What is rare about the Indische buurt in Groningen is that all four counted crime types come out above the Dutch middle: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism at once. Usually one category carries such a score and there is therefore something to qualify; here the 2.8 for safety comes about across the full breadth.
The second thing that stands out is about who lives there. At more than seven in ten addresses one person lives, and both children and over-65s are thin on the ground. The primary school is round the corner, so the mediocre families score does not come from the walking distance but from the low share of children. The same composition shows up in the wealth figures: the top income group is not even half as large as in the rest of the country, while the share of social assistance recipients is more than ten times as high.
- no. 12,533 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 105 of 120 in Groningen
How Indische buurt scores
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Is Indische buurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Indische buurt comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Indische buurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 453 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
Indische buurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 26%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2526%
NL median 11%
- 25–4538%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
71% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,303 — 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 Indische buurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Indische buurt comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Indische buurt 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 Indische buurt?
In Indische buurt the police recorded 453 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Indische buurt calculated?
Indische buurt scores 2.8 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 Indische buurt 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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