neighbourhood in Groningen
Ulgersmaborg
2,255 residents · postal code 9731 · Part of Nieuw-Oost, Groningen
Everything for children close by, and little room
Ulgersmaborg has no safety figure, which means its overall score of 6.6 rests on four pillars. When reading that number this is not a detail: a fifth of the weight is simply absent.
What carries the picture is the families pillar, an 8.2. More than forty per cent of households here have children and a fifth of residents are under fifteen, both above the national figure. The primary school is over a kilometre away, though, and that component weighs most heavily in this pillar — without that distance the score would have been higher still.
Set against it is a 5.7 for amenities, rooted in the same geography. The supermarket is more than a kilometre away, the GP over two, the station almost four. This is an area of almost exclusively single-family homes on the city's edge: plenty of room per address, little within walking distance. Living here means relying on the car or the bike.
- no. 6,003 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 37 of 120 in Groningen
How Ulgersmaborg scores
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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
Ulgersmaborg has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,247 — around the 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
How is the grade for Ulgersmaborg calculated?
Ulgersmaborg scores 6.6 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 Ulgersmaborg 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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