neighbourhood in Goes
Overzuid
2,670 residents · postal code 4462 · Part of Goes, Goes
Well-off, and well out of town
In Overzuid no social assistance is recorded, property value is well above the Dutch median and the top income group is one and a half times as broad as nationally — hence the 9.3 for wealth & income, carried by all components at once.
The brake sits with the distances. The supermarket is a good kilometre and a half away, the GP a good kilometre, and those two together determine more than forty per cent of the amenities pillar; it therefore stops at 6.0. That same location pushes the families pillar down to 6.9 despite a share of households with children above the national level: the primary school is a kilometre off, and that is the heaviest component of the score. On safety only burglaries land exactly on the national middle; violence, property crime and criminal damage are below it.
- no. 1,072 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 29 in Goes
How Overzuid scores
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Is Overzuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Overzuid comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Overzuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 53 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
The age profile of Overzuid looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,634 — 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 Overzuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Overzuid comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Overzuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Overzuid?
In Overzuid the police recorded 53 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Overzuid calculated?
Overzuid scores 9.4 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 Overzuid 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.
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