neighbourhood in Leeuwarden

Grou

5,560 residents · postal code 9001 · Part of Grou e.o., Leeuwarden

Bottom 42% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Almost a fifth of the surface of Grou is water — nationally the average neighbourhood stays below one per cent — and that is one of the measurements behind the 7.2 for quiet. Strikingly, it goes together with few trees: the tree canopy cover does not even reach half the national level. Quiet here is open space and water, not a leaf canopy.

The 5.3 for families cannot be talked away with that. The nearest primary school is over a kilometre away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar. The distances to childcare and secondary education count too, although they are not on this page. That fewer children live here than is usual nationally comes on top of it; well over a quarter of residents are 65 or older.

no. 7,709 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 32 of 111 in Leeuwarden

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Is Grou a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Grou comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

20.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.5 per 1,000

Property crime

7.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 158 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

13.8 km

Café

1.1 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 319,000

Welfare recipients

21.6 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

64%

Social housing

29%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

87%

Built after 2000

20%

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

1,859 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

57%

Trees nearby

Water share

18%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

784

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.4 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

1.1 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Grou looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+27%
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
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,859 — 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 Grou a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Grou comes out at 21 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 Grou?

In Grou the police recorded 158 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Grou calculated?

Grou scores 5.6 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 Grou 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.