neighbourhood in Groningen
Professorenbuurt
6,430 residents · postal code 9714 · Part of Oud-Noord, Groningen
Everything close by, little to spend
Twice as much is registered in the Professorenbuurt as nationally, and yet there is a 5.8 for safety. That is not an error in the calculation. Theft here is almost four times above the average Dutch neighbourhood, but violence, burglary and vandalism all stay below it — and violence is the component that counts heaviest.
With families everything points to the population make-up and not to the distances. The primary school is close by, but less than a tenth of the households has children, and both the share of children and the share of older residents are small. Hence the 5.2.
The 3.0 for wealth & income comes from several sides at once: a property value far below the national middle, a bottom income group that covers a majority of the households, and a social assistance figure of more than three times the median.
- no. 10,698 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 75 of 120 in Groningen
How Professorenbuurt scores
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Is Professorenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Professorenbuurt comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Professorenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 421 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
Professorenbuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 38%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–2538%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6512%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,089 — 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 Professorenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Professorenbuurt comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Professorenbuurt 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 Professorenbuurt?
In Professorenbuurt the police recorded 421 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 Professorenbuurt calculated?
Professorenbuurt scores 3.9 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 Professorenbuurt 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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