neighbourhood in Westerkwartier
Grootegast
3,355 residents · postal code 9861 · Part of Grootegast, Westerkwartier
Plenty of space, less prosperity
Noise in Grootegast is six decibels below the national median and three quarters of the surroundings are green. That produces an 8.7 for quiet & nature, even though the tree canopy is actually thinner than nationally — the green map here counts mostly open land, not woodland.
Wealth & income lags far behind at 3.5: property value is well below the median, the upper end of the income distribution is thin and almost half of households fall in the lowest income group. Social assistance is nearly three times as common as nationally. Still the overall score reaches 8.0, and that is the sum of quiet, safety and short distances: the supermarket, GP and primary school are all within six hundred metres, which for a village in the Westerkwartier is by no means a given.
- no. 3,567 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 13 of 79 in Westerkwartier
How Grootegast scores
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Is Grootegast a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Grootegast comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grootegast 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, 54 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 Grootegast looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
923 — 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 Grootegast a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Grootegast comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grootegast 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 Grootegast?
In Grootegast the police recorded 54 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 Grootegast calculated?
Grootegast scores 8.0 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 Grootegast 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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