neighbourhood in Ooststellingwerf
Donkerbroek-Buitengebied
740 residents · postal code 8435 · Part of Donkerbroek, Ooststellingwerf
Room to spare, amenities further off
Thirty-four residents per square kilometre, more than three quarters of the surroundings green and a noise level far below the national median: Donkerbroek-Buitengebied achieves a 9.5 for quiet & nature.
The price is in two other scores. Amenities comes out at a 3.1, because everything is kilometres away and the railway station well out of reach. Families stays at a 4.3, and there the primary school at more than two kilometres counts heaviest. On wealth & income it is notable that property value is above the national median and no social assistance is recorded, while the share of households on a low income is nonetheless slightly above the national median — so the 7.2 is not an unambiguous picture.
- no. 5,241 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 57 in Ooststellingwerf
How Donkerbroek-Buitengebied scores
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Is Donkerbroek-Buitengebied a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Donkerbroek-Buitengebied comes out at 20 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, 18 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 Donkerbroek-Buitengebied looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
34 — 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 Donkerbroek-Buitengebied a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Donkerbroek-Buitengebied comes out at 20 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 Donkerbroek-Buitengebied?
In Donkerbroek-Buitengebied the police recorded 18 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Donkerbroek-Buitengebied calculated?
Donkerbroek-Buitengebied scores 7.0 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 Donkerbroek-Buitengebied 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 Ooststellingwerf
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Ooststellingwerf.
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