neighbourhood in Noordoostpolder
Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West
2,860 residents · postal code 8303 · Part of Emmeloord, Noordoostpolder
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
The nearest railway station to Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West is twenty-five kilometres away, by far the longest distance on this page. Even so, amenities still reach 5.8, because supermarket, GP and restaurant are all three within a kilometre. It is the train that is missing, not daily life.
Every home here is a single-family home, and with the primary school four hundred metres away and almost four in ten households having children, that produces a 9.6 for families — a score resting here on both distance and age structure.
Wealth and income falls far below that at 3.9. Property value is three quarters of the Dutch middle value, the top income group is barely half as broad as nationally and the social assistance rate more than three times that level; only vacancy stays low.
- no. 3,652 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 38 in Noordoostpolder
How Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West scores
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Is Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West 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, 53 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-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,055 — 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-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West 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-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West?
In Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West the police recorded 53 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 Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West calculated?
Emmeloord-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West scores 7.9 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-Espelervaart-Espelervaart West 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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