neighbourhood in Edam-Volendam

Oosthuizen

1,725 residents · postal code 1474 · Part of Oosthuizen, Edam-Volendam

Top 34% in the Netherlands

Safe, but few children

Almost three quarters of the area around Oosthuizen is green, well above the national middle, but tree canopy does not reach a quarter of the national median. That is the profile of open pasture: plenty of surface, little shade. With noise more than two decibels below the middle, that yields an 8.0 for quiet & nature.

The safety pillar is stronger still, if anything. All four offence types stay below the national median, violence at not even half of it and property crime at just over half. With more than seventeen hundred residents those are numbers that mean something, not flukes.

The price is in access. The railway station is almost ten kilometres away and the nearest restaurant more than three — a distance you will not see in most villages. Supermarket and GP are there, both within a kilometre, and the primary school just over a kilometre. That last figure is precisely what keeps the families pillar at 5.0.

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no. 17 of 26 in Edam-Volendam

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Is Oosthuizen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oosthuizen comes out at 18 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.

Total crime

17.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

5.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 39 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

0.9 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

9.8 km

Restaurant

3.2 km

Hospital

10.0 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

8.6 km

Motorway ramp

0.6 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

€ 448,000

Welfare recipients

17.4 per 1,000

High incomes

21%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

70%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

87%

Built after 2000

29%

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

290 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

74%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

358

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.2 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

1.3 km

Households with children

37%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

7.9 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oosthuizen has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 8%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+25%
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
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
290 — 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 Oosthuizen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oosthuizen comes out at 18 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 Oosthuizen?

In Oosthuizen the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Oosthuizen calculated?

Oosthuizen scores 7.5 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 Oosthuizen 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.