neighbourhood in Veendam
Buitenwoel
2,225 residents · postal code 9646 · Part of Veendam-kern, Veendam
Safe, but everything is a drive away
It is quiet in Buitenwoel: the noise level is almost ten decibels below the national median, and together with a low built density that yields a 9.0 for quiet & nature — even though greenery in the immediate surroundings is in fact scarcer than average. Silence and space do the work here, not greenery.
The safety score of 9.6 holds on all four offence types: none of the four — violence, burglary, property crime, vandalism — rises above the national median, and burglary stands at virtually zero.
What you give up is proximity. The supermarket is two kilometres away and the GP one and a half, which keeps the amenities pillar at a 5.3 — the only score here below the national middle. The wealth picture, meanwhile, is mixed: property values are below the median, but the top income group is broader than nationally, the bottom one narrower, and there is no vacancy.
- no. 649 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 17 in Veendam
How Buitenwoel scores
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Is Buitenwoel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buitenwoel comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Buitenwoel 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, 30 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 Buitenwoel looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,071 — 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 Buitenwoel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buitenwoel comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Buitenwoel 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 Buitenwoel?
In Buitenwoel the police recorded 30 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 Buitenwoel calculated?
Buitenwoel scores 9.6 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 Buitenwoel 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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