neighbourhood in Westerkwartier
Sint Maheerdt
2,345 residents · postal code 9356 · Part of Tolbert, Westerkwartier
Safe streets, thinner wallets
More than thirteen kilometres to the station, and supermarket and GP both more than a kilometre away: Sint Maheerdt therefore comes out at 4.2 for amenities, the lowest of the five scores here. Anyone without a car notices that every day.
The primary school is the exception, at five hundred metres, and that is precisely the component weighing heaviest in the families pillar — hence a 7.5 while the share of children sits around the national picture.
Wealth & income comes out at 3.4. The property value is less than two-thirds of the median, the social assistance rate more than four times above the national middle and the lowest income group over-represented; only vacancy stays below it.
The noise level of forty-six decibels Lden is a good five below the median and lifts the quiet & nature pillar to 7.2, despite a share of green that lags behind.
- no. 9,366 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 53 of 79 in Westerkwartier
How Sint Maheerdt scores
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Is Sint Maheerdt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sint Maheerdt comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Sint Maheerdt 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, 35 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 Sint Maheerdt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,633 — 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 Sint Maheerdt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sint Maheerdt comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Sint Maheerdt 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 Sint Maheerdt?
In Sint Maheerdt the police recorded 35 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Sint Maheerdt calculated?
Sint Maheerdt scores 4.6 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 Sint Maheerdt 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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