neighbourhood in Westerwolde
Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal
2,660 residents · postal code 9561 · Part of Ter Apel, Westerwolde
Spacious, but safety lags
For Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal, the property value and both income shares are missing; with too few households, Statistics Netherlands does not publish them. The wealth & income pillar therefore rests on fewer components than its weight suggests, and what is there is striking: almost the entire housing stock is registered as vacant, against four per cent nationally.
The safety score of 2.8 comes mainly from violence, recorded here more than seven times as often as in the average Dutch neighbourhood. Property offences and vandalism are above the median too; burglary is not.
Quiet & nature, by contrast, stands at 8.3: with just over two hundred residents per square kilometre this is thinly populated country, and the noise level is clearly below the national middle. The price is access — the supermarket, GP and school are each two and a half kilometres away.
- no. 12,584 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 41 of 57 in Westerwolde
How Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal scores
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Is Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 173 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
Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 34%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1529%
NL median 14%
- 15–2534%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–659%
NL median 28%
- 65+2%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
0% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
223 — 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 Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal?
In Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal the police recorded 173 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (58 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 Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal calculated?
Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal scores 2.8 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 Verspreide huizen Ter Apel en Ter Apelkanaal 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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