neighbourhood in Doetinchem

Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest

2,820 residents · postal code 7004 · Part of Oosseld / Vijverberg, Doetinchem

Top 21% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

A 9.5 for families with a GP more than two kilometres away shows exactly what that pillar does and does not measure. The primary school is five hundred metres away and well over four in ten households have children; the GP does not count here, because it belongs to amenities. For anyone looking at Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest with children that is an important distinction: the school is close, the care is not.

The wealth & income pillar stays at a 4.7, its components contradicting each other. There is hardly any vacancy and the income distribution differs little from the national one, but the property value lies below the median and the social assistance rate well above it. What the neighbourhood does have is greenery: the tree canopy comes out at almost twice the Dutch middle. That the quiet & nature score still stalls at a 5.1 comes from noise above the median and a density that does not match it.

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no. 19 of 76 in Doetinchem

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Is Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

22.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

6.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 80 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

2.2 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

1.3 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

2.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 354,000

Welfare recipients

17.7 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

66%

Social housing

30%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

89%

Built after 2000

36%

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

3,885 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

54%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

628

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 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

0.5 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,885 — 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 Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest?

In Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest the police recorded 80 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest calculated?

Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest scores 8.4 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 Oosseld / Vijverberg - zuidwest 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.