neighbourhood in Súdwest-Fryslân

Wommels

2,235 residents · postal code 8731 · Part of Littenseradiel, Súdwest-Fryslân

Top 47% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Wommels lies more than ten kilometres from the nearest station and still scores a 7.6 for amenities. That is because the village has a complete centre of its own: supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within a kilometre. Living here without a car gets you through the daily errands, but not out of the area.

The quiet & nature pillar stands at a 7.5, and that is greenery and silence: the noise level is below the national median and three quarters of the immediate surroundings are green. The tree canopy, by contrast, is thin — the openness of this landscape is in that figure.

The 3.9 for wealth & income is the weak point, and it is broad: low property values, a thinner top income group and a wider bottom one than nationally. Crime runs the other way. The total stays well below the national median; only burglary clearly rises above it, and it is the one offence type for which that holds here.

no. 6,049 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 24 of 141 in Súdwest-Fryslân

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Is Wommels a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Wommels comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wommels is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

15.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.9 per 1,000

Property crime

2.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 37 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

10.6 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

12.1 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.0 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

€ 295,000

Welfare recipients

13.4 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

62%

Social housing

32%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

84%

Built after 2000

18%

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

2,036 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

76%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

346

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.2 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

0.6 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

8.3 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Wommels has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,036 — 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 Wommels a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Wommels comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wommels 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 Wommels?

In Wommels the police recorded 37 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Wommels calculated?

Wommels scores 6.5 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 Wommels 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.