neighbourhood in Smallingerland
A7 Noord
500 residents · postal code 9207 · Part of Drachten Oost, Smallingerland
Good for children, with a safety question
The overall score of 8.4 for A7 Noord rests on three pillars: amenities and wealth & income have no score here. That makes the figure less solid than it looks, because the missing components could tip the picture.
What is there is contradictory. The families pillar comes out at 9.6, with children in almost six in ten households and a markedly young population. At the same time the number of reported offences is more than twice the national median, with violence standing out while theft and burglary stay below it. With five hundred residents this involves a small number of reports, so that figure moves sharply; the 4.5 for safety is nonetheless what it produces.
- no. 2,836 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 60 in Smallingerland
How A7 Noord scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Wealth & income
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is A7 Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, A7 Noord comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: A7 Noord 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, 69 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Smallingerland →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Smallingerland →
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.
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
A7 Noord has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 48%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2523%
NL median 11%
- 25–4548%
NL median 22%
- 45–6513%
NL median 28%
- 65+2%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
Not enough dataNot enough data
NL median 31%
Households with children
58% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
247 — 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 A7 Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, A7 Noord comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: A7 Noord 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 A7 Noord?
In A7 Noord the police recorded 69 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (52 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 A7 Noord calculated?
A7 Noord scores 8.4 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 A7 Noord 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.
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