neighbourhood in Het Hogeland
Bedum Zuid - Oost
1,990 residents · postal code 9781 · Part of Bedum, Het Hogeland
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Bedum Zuid - Oost is built entirely low-rise and nothing has been added since the turn of the century. That makes it a completed extension, and the scores are correspondingly even: not one pillar drops below 5.2 and the overall score comes to 8.4.
The quiet & nature pillar comes mainly from greenery and noise: almost three quarters of the surroundings are green, against a good half nationally, and noise levels are seven decibels below the median. Water is entirely absent, and that actually depresses this score.
The safety picture is calm without outliers: all four crime types are at or below the national median, with violence exactly at it. What lags is the wealth & income pillar, and that comes from property value — here a good hundred thousand euros below the national median, while the income distribution stays close to it.
- no. 2,844 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 62 in Het Hogeland
How Bedum Zuid - Oost scores
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Is Bedum Zuid - Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bedum Zuid - Oost comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Bedum Zuid - Oost is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 23 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
The age profile of Bedum Zuid - Oost looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,370 — 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
Is Bedum Zuid - Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bedum Zuid - Oost comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Bedum Zuid - Oost is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bedum Zuid - Oost?
In Bedum Zuid - Oost the police recorded 23 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Bedum Zuid - Oost calculated?
Bedum Zuid - Oost scores 8.4 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 Bedum Zuid - Oost 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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