neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Oude Gracht-West
2,890 residents · postal code 5631 · Part of Begijnenbroek, Eindhoven
Everything close by, safety lags
In Oude Gracht-West all four offence types sit above the national middle value — violence at almost double, property offences at more than double, and burglary and vandalism above it as well. That is unusual: normally a low safety score can be traced to one or two types. Here no component softens the 2.9.
Wealth and income comes out at 3.8, with property value far below the Dutch level and a social assistance rate at more than three times that level. Vacancy, by contrast, is exactly on the national middle, so it explains nothing.
The 8.0 for amenities is what the neighbourhood does have: supermarket, GP, restaurant and primary school are all within a kilometre and the station two and a half. More than half of the households here consist of one person, and for that group a short walk to daily necessities counts for more than the table shows.
- no. 11,047 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 68 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Oude Gracht-West scores
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Is Oude Gracht-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Gracht-West comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oude Gracht-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 153 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
Oude Gracht-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,710 — 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 Oude Gracht-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Gracht-West comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oude Gracht-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Oude Gracht-West?
In Oude Gracht-West the police recorded 153 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Oude Gracht-West calculated?
Oude Gracht-West scores 3.7 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 Oude Gracht-West 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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