neighbourhood in Oldambt
Midwolda
1,825 residents · postal code 9681 · Part of Midwolda, Oldambt
Safe, but few children
The supermarket is around the corner in Midwolda, but the GP is a good three kilometres away and the primary school nearly two. That spread explains why amenities stick at a meagre 5.4 and families at 3.4: school distance is by far the heaviest component of the latter, and here it works out badly.
The safety pillar, by contrast, stands at 9.2. All four types of reported offence stay below the national middle, property crime at less than half of it.
Wealth & income is less clear-cut than the 3.8 suggests. The property value is well below the median and the income distribution is shifted downwards, but vacancy stays under the national middle. Buying here costs considerably less than is usual nationally, and that low vacancy figure shows those homes do find occupants.
- no. 7,731 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 48 in Oldambt
How Midwolda scores
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Is Midwolda a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Midwolda comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Midwolda 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, 26 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 Midwolda looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
552 — 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 Midwolda a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Midwolda comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Midwolda 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 Midwolda?
In Midwolda the police recorded 26 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Midwolda calculated?
Midwolda scores 5.6 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 Midwolda 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 Oldambt
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Oldambt.
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