neighbourhood in Groningen

Lewenborg-West

1,730 residents · postal code 9732 · Part of Nieuw-Oost, Groningen

Bottom 42% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

The primary school is four hundred metres away and the supermarket barely further; that is where most of Lewenborg-West's 7.9 for families comes from, not from a young population. More than a fifth of residents are 65 or older.

The wealth & income pillar is less clear-cut than the 4.9 suggests. The social assistance rate here is below the national middle and so is vacancy; what depresses the score is property value, together with the small share of high-income households.

The weakest point is safety. Violence is almost twice the national middle and vandalism further above it still, while burglary is rare here.

no. 7,630 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 46 of 120 in Groningen

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Is Lewenborg-West 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

37.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

17.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 87 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

0.6 km

GP practice

1.4 km

Train station

5.3 km

Restaurant

1.4 km

Hospital

3.9 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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

€ 289,000

Welfare recipients

5.8 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

81%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

69%

Built after 2000

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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

3,260 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

47%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,486

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.

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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

0.4 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

16%

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Who lives here

Lewenborg-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,260 — 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 Lewenborg-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Lewenborg-West comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Lewenborg-West 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 Lewenborg-West?

In Lewenborg-West the police recorded 87 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Lewenborg-West calculated?

Lewenborg-West scores 5.6 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 Lewenborg-West 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.