neighbourhood in Goes
Goes-Oost
5,855 residents · postal code 4461 · Part of Goes, Goes
Everything close by, safety lags
Eight per cent of homes in Goes-Oost are vacant, double the national level. Vacancy counts in the wealth pillar, which comes out at a 3.5 here — together with a property value far below the Dutch middle and heavy social assistance use.
What happens in the safety pillar weighs more heavily. Violence in this Zeeland neighbourhood comes out at a good three times the national average, and burglary, vandalism and property crime are above it too. The result is a 2.6, one of the lowest scores in the country, and this is emphatically not only about property. Set against that is a 7.5 for families. That pillar is for the most part about the proximity of school and childcare, and the primary school is round the corner — the share of households with children is actually modest.
- no. 11,922 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 29 in Goes
How Goes-Oost scores
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Is Goes-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Goes-Oost comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Goes-Oost 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, 425 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
Goes-Oost has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,150 — 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 Goes-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Goes-Oost comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Goes-Oost 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 Goes-Oost?
In Goes-Oost the police recorded 425 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (52 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 Goes-Oost calculated?
Goes-Oost scores 3.2 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 Goes-Oost 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Goes
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Goes.
Highest grades
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