neighbourhood in Westerwolde
Sellingen
1,075 residents · postal code 9551 · Part of Sellingen, Westerwolde
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Twenty-five kilometres to the nearest station, and still a 5.4 for amenities: in Sellingen everything you need day to day sits within seven hundred metres, and supermarket and GP are precisely the heaviest components of that pillar. The station counts, but less heavily than the shop around the corner.
The 9.5 for safety rests on firm ground. Burglary occurs here at a fraction of the national rate, violence at just over half, and property crime clearly less often too; only vandalism sits on the median. With more than a thousand residents that is a pattern, not chance. The wealth & income pillar is the weak spot at 3.5, with property value at two thirds of the median and social assistance more than twice the national rate. Quiet & nature, by contrast, scores high, carried by a generous tree canopy and silent streets.
- no. 6,384 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 57 in Westerwolde
How Sellingen scores
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Is Sellingen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sellingen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Sellingen 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, 12 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
Sellingen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+32%
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
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,361 — 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 Sellingen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sellingen comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Sellingen 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 Sellingen?
In Sellingen the police recorded 12 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 Sellingen calculated?
Sellingen scores 6.3 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 Sellingen 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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