neighbourhood in Boxtel
Esch
1,850 residents · postal code 5296 · Part of Esch, Boxtel
Safe, but everything is a drive away
A 9.8 for safety puts Esch among the four hundred best-scoring neighbourhoods in the country on that pillar. All four measured offence types sit below the national middle, with burglary at a fraction of it. That is rare, because usually one type does push the figure up.
The amenities pillar is split. Supermarket and primary school are within five hundred metres, but the GP is three kilometres away and the restaurant a little further still. For daily shopping that is fine; for a surgery appointment you take the car, and that explains the 5.7 despite such short distances around the corner.
The wealth & income pillar comes to 6.1, with property values just above the national median and social assistance well below it. Vacancy, though, is almost twice the national middle.
- no. 1,245 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 19 in Boxtel
How Esch scores
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Is Esch a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Esch comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Esch 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, 26 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 Esch looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,048 — 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 Esch a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Esch comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Esch 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 Esch?
In Esch the police recorded 26 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Esch calculated?
Esch scores 9.3 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 Esch 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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