neighbourhood in De Bilt
De Bilt Oost
4,390 residents · postal code 3732 · Part of De Bilt Oost, De Bilt
Everything close by, little space
De Bilt Oost has the accessibility of a town centre and the crime picture that comes with it. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are within six hundred metres, good for a 9.1, while property offences run at more than one and a half times the national median and make up over half of all recorded crime. Violence stays just below it; the 4.9 for safety is therefore about theft.
Quiet & nature comes out at a 4.7 despite six tenths green space within three hundred metres and a tree canopy twice the national level. What weighs the pillar down is a noise level more than five decibels above the median and a density of almost seven thousand residents per square kilometre.
Property values sit almost exactly on the national median — a rare neutral figure in a neighbourhood that swings everywhere else.
- no. 4,760 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 21 in De Bilt
How De Bilt Oost scores
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Is De Bilt Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Bilt Oost comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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.
In 2025, 173 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
De Bilt Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,793 — 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 De Bilt Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Bilt Oost comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Bilt Oost?
In De Bilt Oost the police recorded 173 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 De Bilt Oost calculated?
De Bilt Oost scores 7.3 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 De Bilt Oost 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of De Bilt.
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