neighbourhood in Waadhoeke

Ingelum

320 residents · postal code 9038 · Part of Ingelum, Waadhoeke

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

Ingelum has just over three hundred residents and the lowest overall score in this area, a 2.7. Four of the five pillars stay below six, and the one component that really stands out is distance: the supermarket is more than five kilometres away, as is the nearest restaurant, while the GP and primary school lie a kilometre and a half off.

The 3.6 for quiet & nature is the surprise in a village with so much open ground around it. Greenery is plentiful, but noise runs more than five decibels above the national median, tree canopy covers a fraction of what is usual nationally, and surface water is absent. Quiet here is not the same as emptiness. In wealth & income the pillar holds at 5.1: property value is low, but social assistance does not appear in the figures and almost nothing stands vacant.

no. 12,674 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 85 of 90 in Waadhoeke

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Is Ingelum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ingelum comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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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

21.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

9.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 4 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

5.3 km

GP practice

1.6 km

Train station

8.7 km

Restaurant

5.3 km

Hospital

9.9 km

Café

2.8 km

Library

7.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.5 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

€ 267,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

96%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

100%

Built after 2000

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

1,826 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

63%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.1 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

1.6 km

Households with children

34%

Childcare

1.7 km

Secondary school

6.1 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Ingelum has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,826 — 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 Ingelum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ingelum comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Ingelum?

In Ingelum the police recorded 4 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Ingelum calculated?

Ingelum scores 2.7 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 Ingelum 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.