neighbourhood in Beverwijk

Oostertuinen

1,960 residents · postal code 1944 · Part of Kuenenkwartier, Beverwijk

Top 36% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Oostertuinen scores 8.2 for safety while vandalism here occurs more than one and a half times as often as is usual nationally. That is possible because violence and burglary together make up nearly six tenths of the pillar, and both sit clearly below the median. Property crime stays well below it too. Anyone living here is more likely to face damage to the car than anything more serious.

The wealth & income pillar hangs at 4.0, and the picture is consistent: property values are more than a hundred thousand euros below the national middle, the share of high incomes well under it, the social assistance rate well over. Only vacancy comes out favourably, at two percent.

With the primary school four hundred metres away and three in ten households having children, the families pillar reaches 8.9. Set against that proximity is quiet & nature: greenery within three hundred metres does not even reach sixty percent of the national level, and there is no water.

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no. 13 of 33 in Beverwijk

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Is Oostertuinen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oostertuinen comes out at 20 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.

Total crime

20.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

6.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 43 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 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

€ 302,000

Welfare recipients

15.3 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

40%

Social housing

57%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

54%

Built after 2000

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

10,059 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

30%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,735

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 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

0.4 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oostertuinen has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,059 — 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 Oostertuinen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oostertuinen comes out at 20 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 Oostertuinen?

In Oostertuinen the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Oostertuinen calculated?

Oostertuinen scores 7.4 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 Oostertuinen 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.