neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Oude Spoorbaan
2,175 residents · postal code 5615 · Part of Rozenknopje, Eindhoven
Everything close by, little space
Almost two thirds of households in Oude Spoorbaan consist of one person and only thirteen per cent have children. That is an unusual composition, and it explains why the families pillar sticks at 5.7 even though the primary school is seven hundred metres away: the share of children pulls it down hard.
With a 3.2 for safety the neighbourhood belongs to the twelve hundred lowest-scoring in the country, and the reason lies in theft, which runs at more than three times the national median. But violence and burglary are above it too, so this is not only a matter of things going missing.
The 2.6 for quiet & nature comes from the combination of over eight thousand residents on a square kilometre, a share of green space that does not reach half the national middle, no water at all, and traffic noise five decibels above it.
Only amenities score high at 9.0: supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within six hundred metres.
- no. 11,574 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 74 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Oude Spoorbaan scores
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Is Oude Spoorbaan a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Spoorbaan comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oude Spoorbaan 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, 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
Oude Spoorbaan has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 45%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4545%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
63% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,163 — 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 Spoorbaan a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Spoorbaan comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oude Spoorbaan 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 Spoorbaan?
In Oude Spoorbaan the police recorded 173 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (53 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 Spoorbaan calculated?
Oude Spoorbaan scores 3.4 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 Oude Spoorbaan 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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