neighbourhood in Steenwijkerland
Oldemarkt
2,500 residents · postal code 8375 · Part of Oldemarkt, Steenwijkerland
Safe streets, thinner wallets
The railway station is nearly eleven kilometres from Oldemarkt and the nearest restaurant two kilometres off, but supermarket, GP and primary school are all within a kilometre. That combination yields a 6.5 for amenities: not a bad score, but one that assumes a car for the rest.
The 8.9 for safety comes from burglary and theft, both far below the national median; violence sits exactly on it. Wealth & income stops at 4.7 and that is largely a property-value figure, because the social assistance rate is actually below the national level and incomes barely deviate. At nearly three in ten, the share of over-65s is considerably higher than nationally, and that pushes the families pillar down to 6.7 despite a school around the corner.
- no. 3,411 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 78 in Steenwijkerland
How Oldemarkt scores
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Is Oldemarkt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oldemarkt comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oldemarkt 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, 36 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
Oldemarkt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,947 — 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 Oldemarkt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oldemarkt comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oldemarkt 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 Oldemarkt?
In Oldemarkt the police recorded 36 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 Oldemarkt calculated?
Oldemarkt scores 8.0 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 Oldemarkt 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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