neighbourhood in Baarn

Oude-Oosterhei

2,140 residents · postal code 3742 · Part of Baarn, Baarn

Top 1% in the Netherlands

Safe, but not spacious

Oude-Oosterhei belongs to the fifty highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and that is because there is no weak spot in it: none of the five pillars drops below the national middle. That is rare, because good accessibility usually comes at the cost of quiet and the other way round.

Here the two go together. Supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all four within six hundred metres and the station just over a kilometre, while almost two thirds of the neighbourhood lies within three hundred metres of greenery and the tree canopy covers more than twice the national share.

The safety score of 9.8 rests on all four measured types: not one sits above the median, and burglary hardly occurs at all. Only the noise level, slightly above the national middle, keeps the quiet & nature pillar behind the rest.

no. 31 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 4 of 21 in Baarn

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Is Oude-Oosterhei a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oude-Oosterhei comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oude-Oosterhei 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.

Total crime

12.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

4.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 32 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.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 499,000

Welfare recipients

9.3 per 1,000

High incomes

27%

Low incomes

32%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

83%

Social housing

13%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

84%

Built after 2000

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

6,246 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

64%

Trees nearby

21%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,034

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

35%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oude-Oosterhei has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 8%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6531%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,246 — 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 Oude-Oosterhei a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Oude-Oosterhei?

In Oude-Oosterhei the police recorded 32 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Oude-Oosterhei calculated?

Oude-Oosterhei scores 10.0 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 Oude-Oosterhei 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.