neighbourhood in Best
Naastenbest
4,185 residents · postal code 5684 · Part of Centrum, Best
Everything for children close by, and little room
No safety figure is available for Naastenbest. The overall score of 7.9 therefore rests on four pillars here, and that is worth holding on to when comparing with other districts: the component that often makes the difference elsewhere is missing from this sum.
What is there is sharp enough. A 9.7 for families comes from a primary school four hundred metres away and children in more than four in ten households. On top of that the GP and the station are both within a kilometre, which is unusual for a district of this size.
Quiet & nature stays at 3.8. Greenery is well below the national median, open water is absent and the noise level is above the median. That is the flip side of exactly the same central position that lifts the amenities figure.
- no. 3,680 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 18 in Best
How Naastenbest scores
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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
Naastenbest has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,594 — 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
How is the grade for Naastenbest calculated?
Naastenbest scores 7.9 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 Naastenbest 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Best
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Best.
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