neighbourhood in Noordoostpolder
Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen
2,285 residents · postal code 8302 · Part of Emmeloord, Noordoostpolder
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Sixty per cent of households in Emmelhage-Boswonen have children, and still the families pillar gets no further than 6.2. The reason is distance: the nearest primary school is two kilometres away, and school and childcare distance together make up almost two thirds of that figure. There are children enough; the school is not there.
Wealth & income is strong here across the board. Property value above the national median, little social assistance, hardly any vacancy and an above-average share of high incomes — four components all pointing the same way, which is rare.
The price is paid in the amenities pillar. GP and restaurant are well outside the neighbourhood and the station is twenty-five kilometres away. For daily shopping there is a supermarket nearby; for everything beyond that a car here is not a choice but a condition.
- no. 1,969 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 38 in Noordoostpolder
How Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen scores
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Is Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen 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, 23 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
Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen has strikingly many children under 15: 26%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1526%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
16% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
60% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,617 — 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 Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen 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 Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen?
In Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen the police recorded 23 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 Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen calculated?
Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen scores 8.9 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 Emmeloord-Emmelhage-Boswonen 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Noordoostpolder
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Noordoostpolder.
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