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Living in De Hoogte

The population is shrinking slower than in Groningen. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Groningen, and registered crime per resident is about the same.

4,000 residents, 2,596 homes, Data: CBS, Politie, Kiesraad, Kadaster

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01 · Prices & homes

Homes cost less than the Groningen average.

The average WOZ value in De Hoogte is €237,000, 24% lower than in Groningen (€313,000). 10% of the homes are owner-occupied, 31 percentage points less than in Groningen (41%).

Key figures
  • Average WOZ value
    €237,000
    24% lower than Groningen (€313,000)
  • More figures
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    10%
    31 percentage points lower than Groningen (41%)
  • Social housing
    73%
    42 percentage points higher than Groningen (31%)
  • Private rent
    17%
    11 percentage points lower than Groningen (28%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    22%
    17 percentage points lower than Groningen (39%)
  • Built 1965–1974
    0%
    13 percentage points lower than Groningen (13%)
  • Built 1975–1991
    8%
    11 percentage points lower than Groningen (19%)
  • Built 1992–2005
    3%
    7 percentage points lower than Groningen (10%)

Modelled ownership costs

Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€199 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)

€199/ month

Typical home here, before mortgage and energy

  • 69 m² · measured buurt average
  • WOZ €237,000 · average here
Levies you'll be billed€106NL median
  • Water board levy€38–
  • Property tax (OZB)€32€21
  • Waste levy€22€27
  • Sewage levy€14€22
Costs to set aside€93
  • Maintenance reserve€87–
  • Buildings insurance€6–

Model estimates, not bills.

For this home, Groningen's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 131st of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.

cheapestdearest

Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.

Explanation
  • The home: one typical home of 69 m² (measured average in this buurt) with the average WOZ value here, €237,000.
  • Levies: Groningen's own OZB, sewage and waste rates for 2026. The water board levy uses national average rates.
  • Set aside: maintenance at 0.85% and buildings insurance at 0.06% a year of the rebuild cost (€1,800 per m²).
  • NL median: what the same home would pay in the middle gemeente. Gemeenten where a regional body collects the waste levy are left out.
  • Not included: mortgage and energy. These are estimates, not actual bills.

Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026

Dwelling value ladder

De Hoogte has the lowest WOZ value of the 3 buurten in Oud-Noord.

Netherlands€398,000
Groningen€313,000
Oud-Noord€249,000
Indische buurt€238,000
De Hoogte€237,000
Explanation

Average WOZ value from the Netherlands down to this area, and its rank within its own group (e.g. buurten within the same wijk). Provincie is omitted: KWB publishes no province rows to average.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)

WOZ value and age structure

Here: €237,000 average WOZ value.

ValueDwellingsAged 65+
De Hoogte237,0002,596–
Indische buurt238,0004,901–
Professorenbuurt276,0003,349–
Explanation

Each circle is an area: position by average WOZ value, size by dwelling count. The 65-and-over share (pct_65_plus) travels on every point but is not yet drawn as a second axis.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)

Dwellings by ownership

The largest category is social housing, at 73% of dwellings.

  • Owner-occupied10%
  • Social housing73%
  • Private rent17%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by type

78% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.

  • Single-family homes22%
  • Multi-family homes78%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by build period

35% of dwellings were built between 1945 and 1964, against 13% in the municipality of Groningen.

  • Before 194531.2%
  • 1945-196434.7%
  • 1965-19740.1%
  • 1975-19918%
  • 1992-20053%
  • 2006-201512.1%
  • 2016 and later11%
Explanation

Based on 2,438 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

02 · Safety

About as much registered crime per resident as the Groningen average.

In 2025, 61 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in De Hoogte, about the same as in Groningen (61). Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.

Key figures
  • Crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025
    61
    about the same as Groningen (61)
  • Home burglary per 1,000 dwellings
    2.2
    27% lower than Groningen (3.0)

Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025

In 2025, De Hoogte registered 61 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 61 in the municipality of Groningen.

De Hoogte61
The municipality of Groningen61
Explanation

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

Registered crime per year

In 2025, De Hoogte registered 61 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 61 in the municipality of Groningen.

Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025
61about the same as Groningen
Explanation

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

Crime by category

The largest category in De Hoogte is 'Theft and burglary': 36.9 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 34.7 in the municipality of Groningen.

De HoogteGroningen
  • Theft and burglary36.9
  • Traffic7.6
  • Violence and threats6.3
  • Vandalism and public order4.6
  • Fraud and scams3.2
  • Other and withheld2.7
  • Environmental0.0
Explanation

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

Home burglary 2023-2025: 2.2 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.0 in the municipality of Groningen.

De Hoogte2.18
The municipality of Groningen3.03
Explanation

Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.

Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025

Traffic accidents by outcome

In 2024, police in De Hoogte registered 11 traffic accidents, of which 5 with injury and none fatal.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
FatalInjuryMaterial damage only
Explanation

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

03 · Living environment

Living environment

Distance to amenities

A large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 700 m.

DistanceValue
Large supermarket700 m–
GP practice800 m–
Primary school1,100 m–
Daycare700 m–
Large supermarkets–4.7
GP practices–2.1
Daycares–3.3
Explanation

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

04 · Residents

The population is shrinking slower than the Groningen average.

De Hoogte has 4,000 inhabitants (2026), or 11,277 per km² (8.5 times as high as in Groningen). Between 2025 and 2026 the population fell 2%, against no real change 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.

Key figures
  • Population growth since 2025
    -2%
    lower than Groningen (-0%)
  • Turnout, municipality of Groningen
    81%
    3 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (78%)
  • More figures
  • Aged 25 to 45
    43%
    12 percentage points higher than Groningen (31%)
  • Never married
    79%
    12 percentage points higher than Groningen (67%)
  • Dutch origin
    56%
    14 percentage points lower than Groningen (70%)
  • D66, share of the vote
    24%
    7 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (17%)

Population per year

The population shrank 2% between 2025 and 2026, to 4,000.

Residents, 2026
4,000
  • -2% since 2025
  • Groningen +0%

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Density

With 11,277 residents per km², this buurt is 8.5 times as densely populated as the municipality of Groningen.

Residents per km²11,277
Dwellings per km²7,417.1

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Births and deaths per 1,000 residents

In 2025, 9.8 children were born per 1,000 residents; 6.1 died per 1,000.

2025
BirthsDeaths

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Residents by age group

43% of residents are between 25 and 45.

  • 0 to 15535
  • 15 to 25680
  • 25 to 451,740
  • 45 to 65770
  • 65 to 80260
  • 80 and over25

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Marital status

79% of residents are never married.

  • Never married3,150
  • Married495
  • Divorced300
  • Widowed55

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Residents by country of origin

56% of residents have Dutch origin.

  • Netherlands2,230
  • Europe (excluding the Netherlands)370
  • Outside Europe1,405

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Parliamentary election

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.

Municipality of GroningenThe Netherlands
D66
24.4%
16.9%
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)
8.4%
16.7%
VVD
10.3%
14.2%
GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
24%
12.8%
CDA
8.6%
11.8%
JA21
3.5%
5.9%
Forum voor Democratie
3%
4.5%
BBB
1.2%
2.6%
Other
16.6%
14.4%
Explanation

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

05 · More figures

More figures

De Hoogte 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%).

Key figures
  • Financial services and real estate, share of businesses
    0%
    4 percentage points lower than Groningen (4%)
  • Business services, share of businesses
    23%
    4 percentage points lower than Groningen (27%)
  • Industry and energy, share of businesses
    12%
    3 percentage points higher than Groningen (9%)
  • Cars per household (2025)
    0.4
    43% lower than Groningen (0.7)
  • Cars not on petrol (2025)
    15%
    14 percentage points lower than Groningen (29%)
  • Residential, share of addresses
    97%
    8 percentage points higher than Groningen (89%)
  • Industrial, share of addresses
    0%
    2 percentage points lower than Groningen (2%)
  • Office, share of addresses
    0%
    1 percentage point lower than Groningen (1%)
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    10%
    47 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (57%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    22%
    41 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (63%)
  • Social housing
    73%
    45 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (28%)

Business establishments by sector

Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 90 establishments.

Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij0
Nijverheid en energie45
Handel en horeca70
Vervoer, informatie en communicatie45
Financiële diensten, onroerend goed0
Zakelijke dienstverlening90
Overheid, onderwijs en zorg70
Cultuur, recreatie, overige diensten65

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Passenger cars by fuel type

15% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 29% in the municipality of Groningen (2025).

  • Petrol85.2%
  • Other fuel (diesel, LPG, electric etc.)14.8%
Explanation

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

Vehicles by kind

In 2025, 1,115 passenger cars and 85 motorcycles were registered here.

Passenger cars1,115
Motorcycles85
Explanation

At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Addresses by building use

97% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is retail (0.6%).

  • Residential97.4%
  • Retail0.6%
  • Office0.1%
  • Assembly0.4%
  • Industrial0.2%
  • Other1.3%
Explanation

Based on 2,502 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

Biggest difference from the Netherlands

11,277 residents per km²: 21 times as densely populated as the Dutch average.

This areaThe Netherlands
  • Residents per km²11,277
  • Owner-occupied dwellings10%
  • Single-family dwellings22%
  • Social housing73%
  • Multi-family dwellings78%
Explanation

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) 2026

06 · Nearby areas

Other neighbourhoods in Groningen

Other neighbourhoods in Groningen
Professorenbuurt6,380€276,00065
Indische buurt8,290€238,00053
Bedrijventerrein De Hoogte10––

Sources: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026, Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01, CBS proximity statistics 2025, CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025, BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024, Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025, Municipal levies + CBS 2026. Figures describe the whole neighbourhood.

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Living in De Hoogte (Groningen): WOZ, prices & safety