neighbourhood in Stadskanaal
Vogelwijk en De Borgen
2,355 residents · postal code 9502 · Part of Stadskanaal, Stadskanaal
Safe, but few children
Almost nineteen kilometres to the station is the hardest edge of Vogelwijk en De Borgen, but not the only one. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all well over a kilometre away. That pushes down two pillars at once: amenities get no further than 4.7 and families stall at 4.2, with school distance the heaviest component.
Set against that is a 9.7 for safety, and it holds on all four offence types: each of the four sits below the national middle, property crime at less than a quarter of it.
The 8.0 for quiet & nature comes from a tree canopy twice the national value, water above the middle and two and a half thousand residents per square kilometre. The noise level sits exactly on the national value and therefore points neither way.
- no. 5,457 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 27 in Stadskanaal
How Vogelwijk en De Borgen scores
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Is Vogelwijk en De Borgen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelwijk en De Borgen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vogelwijk en De Borgen is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 29 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 Vogelwijk en De Borgen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,503 — around the 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 Vogelwijk en De Borgen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vogelwijk en De Borgen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vogelwijk en De Borgen is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Vogelwijk en De Borgen?
In Vogelwijk en De Borgen the police recorded 29 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Vogelwijk en De Borgen calculated?
Vogelwijk en De Borgen scores 6.9 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 Vogelwijk en De Borgen 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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