neighbourhood in Apeldoorn
Osseveld-West
2,180 residents · postal code 7321 · Part of Oost, Apeldoorn
Everything for children close by, and little room
Osseveld-West scores 8.8 for families while relatively few children live there: the share under fifteen stays below the national level and a quarter of residents are 65 or over. What carries that score is the school four hundred metres away — distance counts more heavily in that pillar than who lives there.
On safety one category is out of step. The total number of reported offences is below the Dutch middle, but burglaries are three times above it. That is the only real caveat to a 6.9 that otherwise looks calm.
The quiet & nature pillar is the weakest, and the reason is twofold: the greenery within three hundred metres gets no further than a third of the surroundings and the noise level is almost five decibels above the middle. For a neighbourhood with four in five homes owner-occupied, that is an unusual profile.
- no. 4,049 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 34 of 87 in Apeldoorn
How Osseveld-West scores
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Is Osseveld-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Osseveld-West comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 53 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
The age profile of Osseveld-West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,147 — far more 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 Osseveld-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Osseveld-West comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Osseveld-West?
In Osseveld-West the police recorded 53 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Osseveld-West calculated?
Osseveld-West scores 7.7 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 Osseveld-West 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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