neighbourhood in Midden-Groningen

Slochteren

2,025 residents · postal code 9621 · Part of Slochteren, Midden-Groningen

Bottom 43% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Slochteren scores a 3.4 for wealth & income, and it comes from every direction at once. Property value lies far below the national median, the share of high incomes is smaller than nationally, the share of low incomes larger, and social assistance runs at nearly four times the national middle. Only vacancy is unremarkable. Where many neighbourhoods have one weak component, four point the same way here.

Safety looks strikingly different at a 9.0, but that total hides a nuance. Burglary and property crime hardly occur here, well below the median, while violence rises above it. Of the little that is recorded, a relatively large share is violent — a low total does not mean every type of offence is low.

The daily inconvenience is distance: the station is a good eight kilometres away, the supermarket two. The primary school is the exception, close by, but with four in ten people living alone and few children that does not add up to a high families score.

no. 7,559 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 22 of 69 in Midden-Groningen

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Is Slochteren a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Slochteren comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Slochteren is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

10.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

3.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 19 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

2.1 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

8.2 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

14.3 km

Café

1.8 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 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

€ 287,000

Welfare recipients

29.6 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

36%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

88%

Built after 2000

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

900 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

41%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

210

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.0 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

0.4 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

1.3 km

Secondary school

6.4 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Slochteren looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
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
2.1 — 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
900 — 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 Slochteren a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Slochteren?

In Slochteren the police recorded 19 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Slochteren calculated?

Slochteren scores 5.7 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 Slochteren 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.