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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Groningen. Registered crime per resident is higher than the average in the municipality of Groningen.
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18% of the homes are owner-occupied, 23 percentage points less than in Groningen (41%).
89% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
53% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 19% in the municipality of Groningen.
Based on 495 dwellings with a registered construction year in the BAG (verblijfsobjecten whose pand has no usable bouwjaar, such as 1005 or 9999, are excluded).
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
In 2025, 130 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Damsterbuurt, 2.1 times as high as in Groningen (61). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 7%, against a rise of 24% in Groningen. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Damsterbuurt registered 130 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 61 in the municipality of Groningen.
Crime is counted where it happens and divided by the number of residents, so places with many visitors — city centres, nightlife, stations — score higher.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2025, Damsterbuurt registered 130 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 61 in the municipality of Groningen.
Registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED. A year without a matching population figure (KWB) is left out.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in Damsterbuurt is 'Theft and burglary': 65.8 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 34.7 in the municipality of Groningen.
Four categories are structurally withheld at buurt level (sex offences, child pornography, child prostitution, other integrity offences); the gap with the published total is shown under 'other'.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
Home burglary 2023-2025: 0.7 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.0 in the municipality of Groningen.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2024, police in Damsterbuurt registered 8 traffic accidents, of which 1 with injury and none fatal.
Registered accidents (BRON, Rijkswaterstaat); material-damage-only accidents have not been systematically registered since roughly 2010 and are not comparable between areas. This area shows only accidents with an exactly known location (roughly 80-85% of all registered accidents); the rest is known only at street, intersection or gemeente level. The comparison with the gemeente therefore also uses only the gemeente's exactly-located accidents, which is why that figure is lower than on the gemeente's own page.
Source: BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024
An estimated 73% of adults in Damsterbuurt rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points less than in Groningen. More adults smoke (28% against 21%), more report anxiety or depression (57% against 50%), more meet the physical activity guideline (62% against 57%) and more feel lonely (54% against 50%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Damsterbuurt, covering 62% of the area, against 21% in Groningen. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 8% of the area, 6 percentage points below the 14% in Groningen.
An estimated 73% of adults rate their own health as good, against 75% in the municipality of Groningen (2024).
An RIVM model estimate (small-area estimation from the 2024 Health Monitor for Adults and Elderly), not a direct tabulation — even a buurt that was not itself surveyed gets an estimate. Figures cover adults aged 18 and over.
Source: RIVM/CBS Gezondheidsmonitor Volwassenen en Ouderen (kleine-gebieden-schatting) 2024
8% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 14% in the municipality of Groningen.
Every share is calculated as a percentage of the TOTAL area (land and water together, peiljaar 2022); water is therefore one of the slices itself, not a separate whole. Green is the sum of recreational terrain (parks, sport fields, allotments, day recreation) and natural terrain (forest, open natural terrain) — agricultural land is not counted as green here.
Source: CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022
A daycare lies here at an average road distance of 300 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 600 m | – |
| GP practice | 800 m | – |
| Primary school | 900 m | – |
| Daycare | 300 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 1.8 |
| GP practices | – | 3.4 |
| Daycares | – | 5 |
Average road distance from every address in this buurt to the nearest amenity, and the average count within 1 km — a buurt average, not a distance from one address.
Source: CBS proximity statistics 2025
Damsterbuurt has 655 inhabitants (2026), or 2,383 per km² (80% higher than in Groningen). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 10%, against a rise of 5% in Groningen. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Groningen was 81%, 3 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 24% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 10% between 2021 and 2026, to 655.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 2,383 residents per km², this buurt is 80% more densely populated than the municipality of Groningen.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 6.5 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
46% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
82% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
67% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
54% of residents have a higher professional (hbo) or university (wo) education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Groningen; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 81% of eligible voters in Groningen voted. The largest party was D66 with 24% of the valid votes.
Official election result (Kiesraad), top 8 parties by national vote count plus 'Other'; share of valid votes. A voter may vote at any polling station in their own gemeente; there is therefore no reliable buurt- or wijk-level result. This figure is the whole gemeente's own result.
Source: Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025
Damsterbuurt has an average of 0.4 cars per household, 43% lower than in Groningen (0.7). 15% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 14 percentage points less than in Groningen (29%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 30 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
15% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 29% in the municipality of Groningen (2025).
CBS splits passenger cars into 'petrol' and 'other fuel' only. That second category bundles diesel, LPG, electric (including hybrid), hydrogen, alcohol, LNG and CNG together — CBS publishes no separate electric-car count per buurt, wijk or gemeente, so this is not the same as an 'electric share'.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 18% to 15% between 2021 and 2025.
See the 'Passenger cars by fuel type' card for what 'other fuel' covers — this is not the share of electric cars.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
In 2025, 230 passenger cars and 20 motorcycles were registered here.
At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
92% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (1%).
Based on 540 verblijfsobjecten in use. An object with several registered uses (e.g. a flat above a shop) is counted under each of them, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
11% single-family dwellings, against 63% nationally.
The 5 characteristics that differ most from the national average, ranked by log ratio (so a halving and a doubling count as equally different); the shown percentage is the ordinary difference against the Netherlands.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
| Florabuurt | 1,490 | €284,000 | 28 |
| Vogelbuurt | 3,095 | €284,000 | 42 |
| Gorechtbuurt | 4,735 | €259,000 | 76 |
| Bloemenbuurt | 2,775 | €248,000 | 37 |