neighbourhood in Het Hogeland

Warffum

2,070 residents · postal code 9989 · Part of Warffum, Het Hogeland

Bottom 31% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Warffum records roughly as many offences as the average Dutch neighbourhood, and still safety stalls at 4.9. The explanation lies in the mix: vandalism here runs at nearly three times the national median and violence is above it too, while property crime stays well below the middle. The average conceals what is actually being reported.

The wealth & income pillar stands at 2.9 and it is broad-based: a property value a little over half the Dutch middle, few high and many low incomes, three times as much social assistance as nationally and twice as much vacancy.

That there is a railway station eight hundred metres away is rare for a village this size and accounts for most of the 8.0 on amenities.

no. 9,068 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 32 of 62 in Het Hogeland

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Is Warffum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Warffum comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

24.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

6.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 59 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

22.2 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

8.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.4 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 237,000

Welfare recipients

24.2 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

63%

Social housing

28%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

91%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

1,696 inw/km²

Noise level

47 dB

Green surroundings

51%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

329

Fine particles (PM2.5)

5.9 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

25%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Warffum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
NL median 28%
65+29%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,696 — 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 Warffum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Warffum comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Warffum?

In Warffum the police recorded 59 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Warffum calculated?

Warffum scores 4.8 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 Warffum 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.