neighbourhood in Oost Gelre
Noord-West
2,170 residents · postal code 7141 · Part of Groenlo, Oost Gelre
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Anyone living in Noord-West has the primary school, the supermarket and the GP all within a kilometre, and that produces an 8.3 for amenities and an 8.4 for families. The second of those is largely distance: only twelve per cent of residents are under fifteen and almost three in ten have passed sixty-five.
The wealth & income pillar sticks at 3.8. Property value is at a good sixty per cent of the national median, the share of high incomes at a little over half the national one, the share of low incomes well above it and the social assistance rate at more than double. Only vacancy is low.
On safety the total is below the national median, but violence runs one and a half times above it and that component determines almost a third of the pillar. Theft, by contrast, stays at a third of the national level. So the 6.8 is not an average of calm — it is little theft alongside more violence than usual.
- no. 5,132 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 37 in Oost Gelre
How Noord-West scores
Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Noord-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noord-West comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 41 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Oost Gelre →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Oost Gelre →
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
Noord-West has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,298 — 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 Noord-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noord-West comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Noord-West?
In Noord-West the police recorded 41 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Noord-West calculated?
Noord-West scores 7.1 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 Noord-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 Oost Gelre
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Oost Gelre.
Highest grades
Lowest grades
More about this area
Nearby neighbourhoods
Het Blik
Oost Gelre
Banninghof
Oost Gelre
Papendijk
Oost Gelre
Verspreide huizen Voor-Beltrum
Berkelland
Binnenstad Groenlo
Oost Gelre
Noordrand
Oost Gelre