neighbourhood in Leeuwarden

Techum

1,950 residents · postal code 8941 · Part of De Zuidlanden, Leeuwarden

Top 4% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

A 10.0 for safety is something almost no Dutch neighbourhood gets; Techum ranks in the country's top twenty with it. Not one offence type comes near the national median, and burglary is close to nil. On wealth & income the components point one way too: high property value, many high incomes, few low ones, and both social assistance and vacancy below the median.

The brake is on access. The supermarket is still walkable, but for a GP you have to go almost four kilometres and the railway station is further still — hence a 4.5 for amenities. For families that matters little: the primary school is close by, almost two thirds of households have children and the population is markedly young.

no. 402 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 1 of 111 in Leeuwarden

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Is Techum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Techum comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Techum 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.

Total crime

13.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

0.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

2.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 26 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

0.9 km

GP practice

3.7 km

Train station

4.3 km

Restaurant

3.2 km

Hospital

3.8 km

Café

3.2 km

Library

4.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.5 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

€ 447,000

Welfare recipients

5.1 per 1,000

High incomes

32%

Low incomes

24%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

70%

Social housing

10%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

87%

Built after 2000

100%

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

3,168 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

61%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

399

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

0.6 km

Households with children

63%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

3.1 km

Residents under 15

32%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Techum has strikingly many children under 15: 32%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1532%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+4%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
63% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,168 — 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 Techum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Techum comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Techum 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 Techum?

In Techum the police recorded 26 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 Techum calculated?

Techum scores 9.8 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 Techum 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.