neighbourhood in Hoogeveen

Kattouw

1,140 residents · postal code 7908 · Part of De Weide, Hoogeveen

Bottom 32% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Kattouw scores 7.6 for quiet & nature, which is striking for a neighbourhood with over four thousand residents per square kilometre. The explanation is water: a tenth of the surface is water, twenty times the national middle, and that weighs just as heavily as density does. Noise levels stay below the median too.

The wealth & income pillar is the mirror image. A 3.3 here comes not from one component but from four: property value well below the national middle, a thin top income group, a broad bottom one, and social assistance at more than five times the median. Only vacancy sits favourably — almost no home stands empty. The primary school being six hundred metres away pulls the families score to 7.8, but none of that shifts the income picture.

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no. 29 of 47 in Hoogeveen

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Is Kattouw a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kattouw comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

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

Total crime

17.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

4.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 16 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

1.2 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

3.9 km

Restaurant

1.2 km

Hospital

2.4 km

Café

3.4 km

Library

3.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 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

€ 247,000

Welfare recipients

43.9 per 1,000

High incomes

10%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

52%

Social housing

46%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

95%

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

4,576 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

11%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,221

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.3 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

0.6 km

Households with children

37%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

3.6 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kattouw has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,576 — 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 Kattouw a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kattouw comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Kattouw?

In Kattouw the police recorded 16 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Kattouw calculated?

Kattouw scores 4.9 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 Kattouw 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.