neighbourhood in Groningen
Zernike Campus
450 residents · postal code 9747 · Part of Nieuw-Noord, Groningen
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
Not a single household in Zernike Campus has children, and nobody here is under fifteen. That yields a 2.5 for families: the second-lowest families score in the whole of the Netherlands. Every household here consists of one person.
Two pillars have no score, amenities and wealth & income, and for amenities all distances are missing as well. The overall 2.8 therefore rests on three pillars, and on how far anything is from here these data say nothing.
What does come out sharply is the combination of plenty of greenery and plenty of reported offences. The quiet & nature pillar reaches a 9.3 through low density, little noise and a lot of green; the number of recorded thefts is meanwhile a multiple of the national middle. Crime is not part of the quiet & nature pillar, so those two figures sit beside each other, not against each other.
- no. 12,625 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 109 of 120 in Groningen
How Zernike Campus scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Wealth & income
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Zernike Campus a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zernike Campus comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zernike Campus 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, 85 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Groningen →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Groningen →
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.
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
Zernike Campus has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 88%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–150%
NL median 14%
- 15–2588%
NL median 11%
- 25–4511%
NL median 22%
- 45–650%
NL median 28%
- 65+–Not enough data
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
1.0 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
100% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
0% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
242 — far less 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 Zernike Campus a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zernike Campus comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Zernike Campus 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 Zernike Campus?
In Zernike Campus the police recorded 85 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (72 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 Zernike Campus calculated?
Zernike Campus scores 2.8 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 Zernike Campus 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Groningen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Groningen.
Highest grades
Lowest grades
More about this area
Nearby neighbourhoods
Reitdiep
Groningen
Vinkhuizen-Noord
Groningen
Paddepoel-Noord
Groningen
Gravenburg
Groningen
De Held
Groningen
Selwerd
Groningen