neighbourhood in Ooststellingwerf

Appelscha-Toogwijk

390 residents · postal code 8426 · Part of Appelscha, Ooststellingwerf

Bottom 15% in the Netherlands

Safe, but few children

Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant in Appelscha-Toogwijk are all between one and two kilometres away, and the railway station at almost twenty. That explains both the 4.0 for amenities and the 3.8 for families — the school distance weighs heavily in the latter pillar, and few children live here besides.

Against that stands an 8.6 for safety, and on that point the picture is the same across the board: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism are below the national median. With four hundred residents each type amounts to a handful of records a year, so the figure is sensitive to chance. It is quiet here too: the measured noise level is clearly below the national median.

no. 11,121 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 48 of 57 in Ooststellingwerf

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Is Appelscha-Toogwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Appelscha-Toogwijk comes out at 19 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.

Total crime

19.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

6.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 3 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

1.2 km

GP practice

1.4 km

Train station

19.3 km

Restaurant

1.8 km

Hospital

18.4 km

Café

6.8 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

3.7 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 288,000

Welfare recipients

25.6 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

75%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

94%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

3,624 inw/km²

Noise level

45 dB

Green surroundings

56%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

417

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.4 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.3 km

Households with children

35%

Childcare

1.2 km

Secondary school

7.6 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Appelscha-Toogwijk has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 35%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6535%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,624 — 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 Appelscha-Toogwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Appelscha-Toogwijk comes out at 19 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 Appelscha-Toogwijk?

In Appelscha-Toogwijk the police recorded 3 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Appelscha-Toogwijk calculated?

Appelscha-Toogwijk scores 3.6 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 Appelscha-Toogwijk 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.