neighbourhood in Oldambt
Nieuw-Scheemda
215 residents · postal code 9943 · Part of Noord, Oldambt
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
It hardly gets quieter in the Netherlands than Nieuw-Scheemda. Measured traffic noise is almost twelve decibels below the national median and greenery in the immediate surroundings covers nearly four fifths of the area — hence the 9.1 for quiet & nature.
That quiet comes at a price recorded in two other pillars. The primary school and the GP are both a good five kilometres away, the supermarket barely closer. That pushes amenities and families to the bottom of the national ranking; for a household without a car this is not a workable place.
Vacancy here is above the national middle, which at two hundred residents means a handful of properties — but together with a property value far below the median and a social assistance rate almost six times the middle, that produces a 3.2 for wealth & income.
- no. 12,810 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 43 of 48 in Oldambt
How Nieuw-Scheemda scores
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Is Nieuw-Scheemda a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw-Scheemda comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 2 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
Nieuw-Scheemda has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 39%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6539%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
320 — 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 Nieuw-Scheemda a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw-Scheemda comes out at 22 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 Nieuw-Scheemda?
In Nieuw-Scheemda the police recorded 2 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Nieuw-Scheemda calculated?
Nieuw-Scheemda scores 2.7 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 Nieuw-Scheemda 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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