neighbourhood in Westerkwartier
Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek
2,620 residents · postal code 9351 · Part of Leek, Westerkwartier
Safe, but everything is a drive away
The name suggests emptiness, but in this rural area south of Leek every home was built after 2000 and almost two thirds of households have children. That is an unusual combination: an 8.9 for families resting not only on school distance — the primary school is close by — but also on the share of young households itself.
Against that stands the 3.5 for amenities, the only genuinely weak figure. Supermarket and restaurant are nearly three kilometres away, the station fifteen. Living here means driving for everything. The 9.9 for safety is the mirror image: every recorded offence type sits at or below the national median, with burglary at a fraction of it and vandalism exactly on the national figure.
- no. 526 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 79 in Westerkwartier
How Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek scores
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Is Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek 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, 23 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
Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek has strikingly many children under 15: 27%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1527%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
3.0 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
64% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,109 — far more 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 Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek 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 Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek?
In Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek the police recorded 23 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 Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek calculated?
Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek scores 9.7 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 Buitengebied ten zuiden van Leek 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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