neighbourhood in Groningen

Laanhuizen

1,300 residents · postal code 9727 · Part of Oud-Zuid, Groningen

Bottom 50% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

The 4.2 for wealth & income in Laanhuizen is mostly in the bricks. Property values stay far below the national median and that component carries the most weight in this pillar, while the share of people on social assistance sits around the national middle. Only the group with the lowest incomes is clearly wider here than average; the score is therefore partly a house price and partly an income distribution.

The safety pillar stands out for what it does not contain. The total number of reported offences is at the national median, but violence and burglary are both below it. What fills the counter is theft.

The 3.5 for quiet & nature comes from density and noise, not from bareness: the tree canopy here is wider than in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

no. 6,630 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 40 of 120 in Groningen

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Is Laanhuizen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Laanhuizen comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

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

Total crime

24.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

15.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 38 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

1.4 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 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

€ 273,000

Welfare recipients

7.7 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

13%

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

6,327 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

41%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,727

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.5 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

0.6 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.3 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Laanhuizen has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 33%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–155%
NL median 14%
15–2533%
NL median 11%
25–4541%
NL median 22%
45–6514%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
67% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,327 — 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 Laanhuizen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Laanhuizen comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Laanhuizen?

In Laanhuizen the police recorded 38 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Laanhuizen calculated?

Laanhuizen scores 6.2 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 Laanhuizen 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.