neighbourhood in Groningen

Paddepoel-Noord

6,075 residents · postal code 9742 · Part of Nieuw-Noord, Groningen

Bottom 14% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

In Paddepoel-Noord almost three quarters of households consist of one person and not even a tenth of residents are under fifteen. That the families score still makes a 6.4 of that is because the primary school is round the corner; in that pillar the distance weighs more heavily than the number of children living there.

The 2.7 for wealth & income is one of the lowest in the country and cannot be pinned on a single component. Property value stays far below the Dutch middle, high incomes are uncommon and low ones common, and social assistance use is five times above the median. Only vacancy is average.

Most of the registrations are theft and vandalism, but violence is above the median too, and that makes the 3.3 for safety more than a theft figure.

no. 11,322 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 83 of 120 in Groningen

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Is Paddepoel-Noord 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

40.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

22.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 300 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

3.7 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

0.6 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

€ 230,000

Welfare recipients

42.8 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

57%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

49%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

29%

Built after 2000

11%

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

9,201 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

15%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,010

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.6 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

10%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Paddepoel-Noord has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 27%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–2527%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6516%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
72% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,201 — 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 Paddepoel-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

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

In Paddepoel-Noord the police recorded 300 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 Paddepoel-Noord calculated?

Paddepoel-Noord scores 3.5 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 Paddepoel-Noord 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.