Veendam-kern

The core of Veendam spans eight neighbourhoods and just over 20,000 residents around the centre and Sorghvliet. Amenities (7.2) and nature (6.5) hold up, and safety comes to 6.1. Housing (3.6), social life (3.7) and the overall (4.1), though, stay well below the median. An old Groningen peat-colony town facing the same liveability questions as much of the north-east.