neighbourhood in Coevorden
Oosterhesselen
1,735 residents · postal code 7861 · Part of Oosterhesselen, Coevorden
Safe streets, thinner wallets
More than a third of the residents of Oosterhesselen are 65 or older, and that is where the families score of 5.6 comes from: the primary school is eight hundred metres away, so distance is not the issue — there are simply few children.
Safety, at 9.7, is the neighbourhood's strongest score. The number of reported offences is roughly half the national median and not one type rises above it; burglary and vandalism are rare. Wealth & income hangs in the middle at 5.0, and there the components do not point one way either: property value is below the national median, but social assistance and vacancy are both below theirs and the income distribution sits close to the national picture.
- no. 2,046 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 61 in Coevorden
How Oosterhesselen scores
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Is Oosterhesselen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oosterhesselen comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oosterhesselen 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, 17 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
Oosterhesselen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+36%
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
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,052 — far 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 Oosterhesselen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oosterhesselen comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oosterhesselen 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 Oosterhesselen?
In Oosterhesselen the police recorded 17 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Oosterhesselen calculated?
Oosterhesselen scores 8.8 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 Oosterhesselen 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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