neighbourhood in Almere
Oosterwold Zuid
3,530 residents · postal code 1349 · Part of Oosterwold, Almere
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Oosterwold Zuid is the opposite of a compact neighbourhood: the building density is a fraction of what is usual in the Netherlands, and that shows up everywhere in the figures. The GP is eight kilometres away, the restaurant more than six, the primary school five. That is where the 2.8 for amenities comes from, and the same school distance explains the 4.0 for families — school and childcare distance make up almost two thirds of that pillar.
What you get in return is in the other three figures. All four types of reported offence stay far below the national middle, which puts the safety pillar at the maximum. Around the buildings the share of greenery is far above the median, and the tree canopy comes out above it as well.
The wealth & income pillar points the same way: high property value, a broad top layer of incomes, little social assistance and hardly any vacancy. This is buying space and giving up access.
- no. 2,892 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 67 of 174 in Almere
How Oosterwold Zuid scores
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Is Oosterwold Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oosterwold Zuid comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oosterwold Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 49 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Oosterwold Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 37%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4537%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
621 — far less densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Oosterwold Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oosterwold Zuid comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oosterwold Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Oosterwold Zuid?
In Oosterwold Zuid the police recorded 49 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Oosterwold Zuid calculated?
Oosterwold Zuid scores 8.3 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Oosterwold Zuid lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almere.
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