neighbourhood in Midden-Groningen

Steendam

215 residents · postal code 9629 · Part of Tjuchem en Steendam, Midden-Groningen

Bottom 23% in the Netherlands

Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children

Thirty-three residents per square kilometre, a fifth of the surface under water and streets twelve decibels quieter than the national median: Steendam draws its 9.2 for quiet & nature from every direction at once.

The bill sits in the families pillar, which stalls at 2.6. The primary school is more than three and a half kilometres away, and since distance to school, childcare and secondary education together makes up nearly two thirds of that pillar, the score comes straight from there. That a quarter of households have children changes little. The wealth & income pillar holds at 6.3, with property value just below the median and an income distribution that barely deviates from it; social assistance does not appear in the figures. At just over two hundred residents the CBS sometimes withholds those series, but here a zero is recorded.

no. 10,176 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 39 of 69 in Midden-Groningen

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Is Steendam a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Steendam comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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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

23.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

7.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 4 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

3.9 km

GP practice

3.7 km

Train station

6.4 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

10.9 km

Café

3.7 km

Library

3.7 km

Motorway ramp

2.7 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

€ 400,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

20%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

81%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

99%

Built after 2000

14%

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

33 inw/km²

Noise level

40 dB

Green surroundings

58%

Trees nearby

Water share

21%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

Fine particles (PM2.5)

5.9 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.

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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

3.6 km

Households with children

23%

Childcare

3.2 km

Secondary school

4.2 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Steendam has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 5%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–255%
NL median 11%
25–4515%
NL median 22%
45–6539%
NL median 28%
65+32%
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
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
33 — 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 Steendam a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Steendam comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Steendam?

In Steendam the police recorded 4 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Steendam calculated?

Steendam scores 4.2 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 Steendam 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.