neighbourhood in Meppel
Verzetsbuurt
2,815 residents · postal code 7943 · Part of Oosterboer, Meppel
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Seven per cent of addresses in the Verzetsbuurt stand empty, almost double the national figure — one of the four components keeping the wealth & income pillar at a 3.7. The other three: a property value at not even two thirds of the Dutch median, few households in the top income group and a social assistance rate of nearly twice the median. Only the share of low incomes lies below the national level here.
Set against that is a 9.3 for safety, resting on all four offence types below the national median — vandalism at less than half of it. Anyone looking in Meppel for a quiet street is looking here at a neighbourhood where reports are rare but money is tight. The 6.5 for families leans entirely on the short distances; well over a quarter of residents are 65 or older and more than four in ten households consist of one person.
- no. 4,678 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 36 in Meppel
How Verzetsbuurt scores
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Is Verzetsbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verzetsbuurt comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Verzetsbuurt 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, 50 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
The age profile of Verzetsbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,751 — 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 Verzetsbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verzetsbuurt comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Verzetsbuurt 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 Verzetsbuurt?
In Verzetsbuurt the police recorded 50 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 Verzetsbuurt calculated?
Verzetsbuurt scores 7.3 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 Verzetsbuurt 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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