neighbourhood in Groningen
Meeroevers
1,830 residents · postal code 9613 · Part of Meerstad e.o., Groningen
Safe, but everything is a drive away
A 10.0 for safety occurs in fewer than thirty neighbourhoods nationally, and Meeroevers is one of them: all four types of reported offence are far below the national middle here. The wealth & income pillar is no less impressive at a 9.9, with high property values, no social assistance and a narrow low-income group.
The weak point is distance. The railway station is almost seven kilometres away and the supermarket is a drive too, which holds amenities at a 4.7 while the GP and the primary school are right around the corner.
The quiet & nature pillar also lags behind the rest, and that is not down to noise, which is low here. Almost half the surface is water, but the tree canopy does not even reach a sixth of the national middle.
- no. 228 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 120 in Groningen
How Meeroevers scores
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Is Meeroevers a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meeroevers comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meeroevers 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, 11 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
Meeroevers has strikingly many children under 15: 35%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1535%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4538%
NL median 22%
- 45–6517%
NL median 28%
- 65+4%
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
3.2 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
8% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
69% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,011 — 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 Meeroevers a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meeroevers comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meeroevers 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 Meeroevers?
In Meeroevers the police recorded 11 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (9 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 Meeroevers calculated?
Meeroevers scores 9.9 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 Meeroevers 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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