neighbourhood in Oldambt
Winschoten-Centrum
4,525 residents · postal code 9671 · Part of Winschoten, Oldambt
Everything close by, little to spend
The number of reported offences in Winschoten-Centrum is around three times the national median, and violence weighs heaviest in it: it occurs here almost five times as often as in the average Dutch neighbourhood. Theft and vandalism are far above the median too. Only burglary barely deviates.
The wealth & income pillar points the same way on every component — a low property value, a thin top layer, a broad bottom layer, high social assistance and more vacancy than average — and comes out at 2.7.
Set against that is a 9.4 for amenities: supermarket, GP, restaurant, school and station are all within a kilometre. More than a third of residents are 65 or older and half the households consist of one person; for anyone unsteady on their feet, that proximity is not a luxury.
- no. 11,866 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 33 of 48 in Oldambt
How Winschoten-Centrum scores
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Is Winschoten-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Winschoten-Centrum comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Winschoten-Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 487 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
Winschoten-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,792 — 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 Winschoten-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Winschoten-Centrum comes out at 72 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Winschoten-Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Winschoten-Centrum?
In Winschoten-Centrum the police recorded 487 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (72 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 Winschoten-Centrum calculated?
Winschoten-Centrum scores 3.2 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 Winschoten-Centrum 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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