neighbourhood in Dijk en Waard
Oostertocht Zuid
2,365 residents · postal code 1705 · Part of Oostertocht, Dijk en Waard
Safe, but not spacious
Oostertocht Zuid has no outlier, and that is the story in itself: five pillars all sitting between 4.9 and 7.6. What does stand out is distance. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all just over a kilometre away, the nearest restaurant more than two. For a neighbourhood with seven thousand residents per square kilometre that is unusually far; the daily shopping costs a drive here.
Those distances push down two pillars at once. Amenities get no further than 5.2, and the families pillar stalls at 6.2 while more than four in ten households have children.
Safety stands best at 7.6, carried by violence at less than half the national middle and property offences just below it. The social assistance rate, by contrast, is more than three times above the national level.
- no. 7,433 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 40 of 58 in Dijk en Waard
How Oostertocht Zuid scores
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Is Oostertocht Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostertocht Zuid comes out at 19 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.
In 2025, 50 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
Oostertocht Zuid has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 13%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,037 — 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 Oostertocht Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostertocht Zuid comes out at 19 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 Oostertocht Zuid?
In Oostertocht Zuid the police recorded 50 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Oostertocht Zuid calculated?
Oostertocht Zuid scores 5.7 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 Oostertocht Zuid 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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