neighbourhood in Westerkwartier
Aduard
2,075 residents · postal code 9831 · Part of Wijk 17, Westerkwartier
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Aduard is strikingly even: safety, amenities, quiet & nature and families all sit between 7.2 and 7.4. Flat profiles like that are rare — most neighbourhoods score high somewhere and low somewhere else.
The exception is wealth & income, at 4.6. The share of low incomes sits exactly on the national median, so it is not broad poverty that makes the score; it is property value, which stays well below the Dutch middle, and a social assistance rate close to double the median.
Quiet & nature holds a contradiction: two thirds of the immediate surroundings are green, well above the national middle, but the tree canopy does not reach half of it. Plenty of open space, little canopy.
- no. 4,179 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 79 in Westerkwartier
How Aduard scores
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Is Aduard a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aduard comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Aduard 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
The age profile of Aduard looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,226 — around the 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 Aduard a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Aduard comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Aduard 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 Aduard?
In Aduard the police recorded 36 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Aduard calculated?
Aduard scores 7.6 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 Aduard 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Westerkwartier.
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