The districts of Midden-Groningen
Midden-Groningen has 61,370 residents (2026), spread across 21 districts and 91 neighbourhoods.
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Midden-Groningen comes out at 5.6 as a municipality — better than 41% of Dutch neighbourhoods. Safety lifts that grade with 7.1; wealth and income hold it back at 4.3. The highest neighbourhood grades sit in De Vosholen-Oost (9.4), the lowest in Kropswolde Recreatiegebied (2.6). That is 6.8 points of difference inside one municipality.
Key figures for Midden-Groningen
- residents
- 61,370
- districts
- 21
- neighbourhoods
- 91
- km² of land
- 278
How Midden-Groningen scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 1,477 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Midden-Groningen →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Midden-Groningen →
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 Midden-Groningen 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%
- 45–6529%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,395 — around the 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Midden-Groningen, weighted by population.
Strongest neighbourhoods
The best neighbourhoods in Midden-Groningen →De Vosholen-Oost
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Meerwijck
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Harkstede
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De Vosholen-West
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Woldwijck-West
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Muntendam-west
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Weakest neighbourhoods
Kropswolde Recreatiegebied
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Overschild
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Woudbloem
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The worst and the safest districts of Midden-Groningen
The worst districts of Midden-Groningen are in one ranking, the safest in the other. Both are built on registered crimes per 1,000 people present, not on reputation.
- The worst and most dangerous areas of Midden-Groningen: the neighbourhoods with the most registered crime.
- The safest areas of Midden-Groningen: the same measurement, the other end of the list.
- All rankings for Midden-Groningen →
Other rankings
The 21 districts of Midden-Groningen with a grade
Sorted by total grade
- 1Harkstede, Scharmer en Woudbloem8.4
- 2Schildwolde7.9
- 3Kalkwijk6.9
- 4Hellum6.9
- 5Kropswolde6.8
- 6Siddeburen6.7
- 7Muntendam6.4
- 8Noordbroek6.4
- 9Slochteren5.6
- 10Meeden5.6
- 11Hoogezand-Zuid5.3
- 12Zuidbroek5.3
- 13Kolham5.1
- 14Sappemeer4.8
- 15Foxhol4.6
- 16Westerbroek en Waterhuizen4.3
- 17Kiel-Windeweer3.9
- 18Tjuchem en Steendam3.9
- 19Foxham en Hoogezand-Noord3.8
- 20Eemskanaal-Zuid3.6
- 21Froombosch3.3