neighbourhood in Meppel
Historisch Centrum
2,350 residents · postal code 7941 · Part of Centrum, Meppel
Everything close by, safety lags
More than thirty registered property offences per thousand residents and thirteen and a half violent ones: the Historisch Centrum of Meppel scores far above the national middle on both, which means the usual city-centre picture does not hold here. It is not only about things disappearing. Only burglary sits close to the national value.
Amenities reach 9.7 — restaurant, supermarket and school are within half a kilometre, the station just over one. That is the other side of the same location.
In the wealth & income pillar vacancy stands out: almost twice the national value, in a neighbourhood where the property value also stays well below the median and the lowest income group is over-represented. A third of residents are 65 or older and six percent under fifteen; that the families pillar still comes out at 6.3 is down to the school around the corner.
- no. 12,083 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 32 of 36 in Meppel
How Historisch Centrum scores
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Is Historisch Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Historisch Centrum comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Historisch Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 284 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
Historisch Centrum has strikingly few children under 15: 6%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–156%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+33%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,432 — 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 Historisch Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Historisch Centrum comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Historisch Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Historisch Centrum?
In Historisch Centrum the police recorded 284 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (72 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 Historisch Centrum calculated?
Historisch Centrum scores 3.1 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 Historisch Centrum 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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