neighbourhood in Groningen
Rivierenbuurt
4,615 residents · postal code 9725 · Part of Oud-Zuid, Groningen
Everything close by, little to spend
For amenities the Rivierenbuurt ranks in the country's top hundred, with a 10.0: restaurant two hundred metres away, GP and supermarket within four hundred, the station a kilometre off. Everything you look for in a city is within ten minutes' walk here.
Against that stands a wealth score of 2.9 in which every component points the same way. That calls for careful reading: more than seven in ten households here consist of one person, and household incomes are measured per household. But the property value and the vacancy rate stand apart from that, and they point just as unfavourably.
On crime, theft is the big item — more than twice the national median — while violence is only just above it. What disappears here is bikes and parcels, not safety on the street.
- no. 10,352 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 68 of 120 in Groningen
How Rivierenbuurt scores
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Is Rivierenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rivierenbuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rivierenbuurt 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, 239 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
Rivierenbuurt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 30%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–155%
NL median 14%
- 15–2530%
NL median 11%
- 25–4538%
NL median 22%
- 45–6514%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,342 — 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 Rivierenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rivierenbuurt comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Rivierenbuurt 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 Rivierenbuurt?
In Rivierenbuurt the police recorded 239 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Rivierenbuurt calculated?
Rivierenbuurt scores 4.1 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 Rivierenbuurt 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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