neighbourhood in Etten-Leur

Het Hooghuis

5,050 residents · postal code 4872 · Part of Midden woongebied, Etten-Leur

Bottom 43% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

The number of registered offences in Het Hooghuis lies below the Dutch median, and yet the safety pillar gets no further than a 6.3. That is because violence, the component that weighs the heaviest in it, sticks out above it, as does vandalism. What pulls the total down is theft, and that counts more lightly.

With the wealth score things lie differently than you would guess. The income distribution barely deviates from the national picture: top and bottom groups are both of an ordinary size. The 4.4 comes from property values, which stay far below the median, and from the social assistance figure, which lies almost four times above it.

The weakest pillar is quiet, with a 3.1. The noise level lies above the national one, there is little greenery in the immediate surroundings and the population density is high. For a neighbourhood where almost all homes are single-family homes, that is an unusual combination.

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no. 25 of 44 in Etten-Leur

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Is Het Hooghuis a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Hooghuis 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.

Total crime

19.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

4.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 120 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

0.7 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

1.1 km

Café

1.0 km

Library

2.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 321,000

Welfare recipients

29.7 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

61%

Social housing

34%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

85%

Built after 2000

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

5,792 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

43%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,930

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

0.6 km

Households with children

37%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Het Hooghuis looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,792 — 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 Het Hooghuis a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Hooghuis 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 Het Hooghuis?

In Het Hooghuis the police recorded 120 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 Het Hooghuis calculated?

Het Hooghuis 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 Het Hooghuis 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.