neighbourhood in Midden-Drenthe
Nieuw-Balinge
820 residents · postal code 7938 · Part of Nieuw-Balinge, Midden-Drenthe
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Nieuw-Balinge has a primary school around the corner and a supermarket eight kilometres away. The two kinds of distance that define a village are rarely this far apart: families comes out at an 8.0, amenities at a 2.5, putting it among the lowest in the country.
That low amenities figure is no detail. Shopping, the GP and a restaurant all require transport here, and anyone who cannot arrange that depends on others. It weighs more heavily with age, and a good fifth of residents are 65 or older.
Against that, living here works out well on both measured counts: a 9.7 for safety, with all four offence types below the national middle and burglary all but absent, and a 9.1 for quiet & nature, with plenty of greenery, little noise and hardly any building per square kilometre.
- no. 4,921 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 47 in Midden-Drenthe
How Nieuw-Balinge scores
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Is Nieuw-Balinge a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw-Balinge comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nieuw-Balinge 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, 5 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 Nieuw-Balinge looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
703 — far 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 Nieuw-Balinge a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw-Balinge comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nieuw-Balinge 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 Nieuw-Balinge?
In Nieuw-Balinge the police recorded 5 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Nieuw-Balinge calculated?
Nieuw-Balinge scores 7.2 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 Nieuw-Balinge 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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