neighbourhood in Groningen

Oranjebuurt

2,600 residents · postal code 9717 · Part of Oud-West, Groningen

Bottom 12% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The Oranjebuurt has a 9.1 for amenities and a 2.9 for safety, and that is not coincidence but the same fact twice. Every recorded offence type here sits above the national median, with property crime at more than double it. Where many people pass through, many possessions disappear — but here violence above the median comes on top of that.

The 3.9 for wealth & income is a mixed picture with one outlier: the share of high incomes sits exactly on the national median and vacancy below it, but the social assistance rate is a multiple of it and almost half of households fall in the bottom income group. The families score of 5.5 follows from the age and household structure — two thirds of households are single-person — and not from distance, since the school is within walking range.

no. 11,633 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 87 of 120 in Groningen

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Is Oranjebuurt 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

40.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.8 per 1,000

Property crime

20.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 145 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

0.4 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.6 km

Café

1.0 km

Library

1.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 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

€ 342,000

Welfare recipients

46.2 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

46%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

43%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

22%

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

9,933 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

5,742

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.7 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

0.5 km

Households with children

14%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.8 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–2525%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
64% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,933 — 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 Oranjebuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oranjebuurt comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oranjebuurt 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 Oranjebuurt?

In Oranjebuurt the police recorded 145 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Oranjebuurt calculated?

Oranjebuurt scores 3.3 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 Oranjebuurt 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.