Midden-Groningen
Municipality inNetherlands·area code GM1952
In The Cracks Index, Midden-Groningen ranks 261 of 342 areas at municipality level. 260 areas catch their most vulnerable people more reliably; 81 areas do so less reliably.
53.3
0 best · 100 widest cracks · built from 8 indicators
The change most likely to close the widest crack in Midden-Groningen
Earlier, joined-up housing and care coordination is the lever most associated with improvement here — catching housing loss before it ends on the street.
Linked to the indicator homelessness. This is the index pointing forward: not a judgement, but a lever. The estimated impact is published as a direction, not a promise.
Where Midden-Groningen’s safety net holds, and where it is under strain
Each bar is the indicator normalised to 0–100, direction-corrected so a longer bar always means more cracks. The raw public value and the source year sit beside it. The method is identical at every level.
wmo_pressure
weight —%Raw value 82.11 per_1000_inhabitantssource year 2024Openestimate
youth_care_load
weight —%Raw value 109.48 per_1000_young_peoplesource year 2024Openestimate
Problematic debt
weight 19%Share of households with debts they can no longer repay. The first crack most people fall through, and the one that pushes the others open.
Raw value 1.0595 % of householdssource year 2024Holdingmeasured
Number of evictions
weight 15%Court-ordered evictions per 10,000 households. A direct measure of how often housing insecurity is allowed to reach its endpoint.
Raw value 10.81 per 10,000 householdssource year 2024Openestimate
Mental-health treatment gap
weight 15%Share of people with an identified mental-health care need who receive no care. The distance between needing help and reaching it.
Raw value 19.21 % unmet needsource year 2024Openestimate
Unmet youth care
weight 12%Share of young people referred for care who wait longer than the recommended term or are never helped. A crack measured early in a life.
Raw value 13.2 % unmet needsource year 2024Openestimate
Food insecurity
weight 12%Share of the population reporting moderate or severe food insecurity. The point at which a financial shortfall reaches the kitchen table.
Raw value 7.81 % of the populationsource year 2024Openestimate
Severe material deprivation
weight 12%Share of the population unable to afford several basic necessities that most people take for granted. A widely used floor for material insecurity.
Raw value 3.12 % of the populationsource year 2024Openestimate
Social assistance
weight 8%People on social assistance (bijstand) per 1,000 inhabitants. Social-assistance receipt reflects income insecurity, so a higher value counts as more strain on the safety net.
Raw value 41.6 per 1,000 inhabitantssource year 2024Openestimate
HomelessnessWidest crack
weight 8%Estimated homeless people per 10,000 inhabitants. A modelled estimate at municipality level, as no per-municipality open measurement exists. Homelessness is an unambiguous sign of a torn safety net.
Raw value 19.71 per 10,000 inhabitantssource year 2024Openestimate
The widest crack in Midden-Groningen is homelessness, which carries the most weight in raising the composite score. That is what the fix above targets.
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Fynqo (2026). The Cracks Index, v1-20260525. Snapshot of 2026-05-25. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0. https://fynqo.app/cracks-index/
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