neighbourhood in Westerwolde

Bourtange

430 residents · postal code 9545 · Part of Bourtange, Westerwolde

Bottom 15% in the Netherlands

Room to spare, amenities further off

Bourtange's primary school is five hundred metres away, the supermarket more than six kilometres. Those two figures explain why the families pillar holds at 5.1 while amenities sink to 3.2: they are different pillars with different distances in them, and doing the shopping here means taking the car.

Quiet & nature is the strongest side at 8.8, and that comes first of all from space — under three hundred residents per square kilometre — plus noise far below the national middle. The wealth & income pillar points the other way without any single component carrying it alone: property value below the median, few households in the top income group, social assistance at more than triple the national rate and over one in ten dwellings vacant. On safety the total stays below the national middle, though burglary is twice above it — with just over four hundred residents that amounts to a few cases.

no. 11,150 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 22 of 57 in Westerwolde

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Is Bourtange a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bourtange 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

20.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

7.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 7 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

6.1 km

GP practice

5.9 km

Train station

19.9 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

20.7 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

6.4 km

Motorway ramp

0.3 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

€ 310,000

Welfare recipients

23.3 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

11%

Owner-occupied

77%

Social housing

14%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

93%

Built after 2000

11%

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

291 inw/km²

Noise level

47 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

Fine particles (PM2.5)

6.0 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

0.5 km

Households with children

23%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

11.7 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Bourtange has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4518%
NL median 22%
45–6535%
NL median 28%
65+29%
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
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
291 — 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 Bourtange a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bourtange 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 Bourtange?

In Bourtange the police recorded 7 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 Bourtange calculated?

Bourtange scores 3.6 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 Bourtange 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.