neighbourhood in Tynaarlo
Paterswolde
3,995 residents · postal code 9765 · Part of Paterswolde, Tynaarlo
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Paterswolde scores a 9.7 for safety and earns it across the board: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are all four below the national median, with the recorded total at less than half of it.
The wealth & income pillar lags well behind at 6.2, and that is less obvious than it looks. The property value sits almost exactly on the national median and the share of high incomes above it; what pushes the score down is the social assistance rate, more than twice the national one. Quiet and safety here are stronger than the average resident's wallet.
- no. 390 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 37 in Tynaarlo
How Paterswolde scores
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Is Paterswolde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Paterswolde comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Paterswolde 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, 46 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
Paterswolde has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,179 — 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 Paterswolde a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Paterswolde comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Paterswolde 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 Paterswolde?
In Paterswolde the police recorded 46 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Paterswolde calculated?
Paterswolde scores 9.8 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 Paterswolde 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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