district in Oldambt
Winschoten
Winschoten has 10 neighbourhoods with 18,870 residents in total.
Winschoten groups ten neighbourhoods and nearly 19,000 residents around its centre in eastern Groningen. Amenities hold up best at 7.3, generous for a town this size, and quiet and nature comes to 5.7. Safety (4.1), wealth and income (3.5) and the overall (4.3), by contrast, stay well below the median. An old market town of the Oldambt facing a stubborn liveability challenge.
no. 6 of the 11 districts of Oldambt
Short answer: Winschoten scores 4.3 as a district of Oldambt, no. 6 of the 11 districts of Oldambt. Its strongest neighbourhood is Winschoten-Sint Vitusholt-Lanengebied (7.4), the worst Verspreide huizen Winschoten (3.1). The district has 10 neighbourhoods with 18,870 residents in total.
Key figures for Winschoten
- residents
- 18,870
- neighbourhoods
- 10
- km² of land
- 20.1
How Winschoten 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, 1,071 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 Winschoten looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,947 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Winschoten, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Winschoten
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Winschoten.
Neighbourhoods in Winschoten
Sorted by total grade