neighbourhood in Meppel
Plantenbuurt
2,035 residents · postal code 7944 · Part of Berggierslanden, Meppel
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Two in three households in the Plantenbuurt have children — a share you rarely see — and yet the families figure gets no further than 6.9. That is down to distance: the primary school is nearly two kilometres away, and in this pillar that weighs more heavily than the number of children. Anyone living here with young children does not walk them to school.
The wealth & income figure of 9.0 rests on every component at once: property value well above the national median, many households with a high income, few with a low one, hardly any social assistance and almost no vacancy. The 9.4 for safety is just as broad: all four offence types stay below the national median. What holds the total back is the 5.3 for amenities — the supermarket and the GP are about a kilometre away, a restaurant more than two.
- no. 1,442 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 36 in Meppel
How Plantenbuurt scores
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Is Plantenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Plantenbuurt comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Plantenbuurt 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.
In 2025, 20 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
Plantenbuurt has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 6%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
3.1 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
67% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,811 — 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 Plantenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Plantenbuurt comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Plantenbuurt 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 Plantenbuurt?
In Plantenbuurt the police recorded 20 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Plantenbuurt calculated?
Plantenbuurt scores 9.2 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 Plantenbuurt 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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