Overview
- Atlas voor Gemeenten again names Amsterdam most attractive to live in, with Amstelveen, Utrecht and Leiden rounding out the top four.
- Hengelo leads the separate broad-welfare index that tracks quality of life across domains such as health, work-life balance and safety, while Rotterdam ranks lowest.
- The attractiveness index leans on willingness-to-pay and work accessibility, which researchers note disadvantages peripheral cities like Maastricht and Groningen.
- Maastricht climbs from 40 to 34 on attractiveness, and residents credit safety investments such as cameras and active neighborhood policing for gains in broad welfare; the mayor welcomes the rise but says the city remains undervalued.
- Emmen ranks last again on attractiveness among the 50 largest municipalities, yet it scores well on safety and improves to 17th on the broad-welfare measure.