neighbourhood in Gooise Meren
Ooster Eng-Zuid
2,385 residents · postal code 1403 · Part of Eng, Gooise Meren
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Ooster Eng-Zuid is half made up of single-person households, and yet there is a 9.2 for families. That score mainly measures distance to school and childcare, and the primary school is four hundred metres away; it therefore says what a family would find here, not how many families live here.
The tree canopy covers almost three times the national share and there is more greenery than in the median neighbourhood. That the quiet pillar still stays at a 7.2 is down to density and to the absence of open water.
The 6.0 for wealth & income is the lowest of the five, and it is mixed: the top income group is thicker than nationally and the bottom one thinner, but property value is just below the national median and the social assistance rate well above it.
- no. 1,157 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 53 in Gooise Meren
How Ooster Eng-Zuid scores
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Is Ooster Eng-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ooster Eng-Zuid comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 85 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
Ooster Eng-Zuid has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 7%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,067 — 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 Ooster Eng-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ooster Eng-Zuid comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Ooster Eng-Zuid?
In Ooster Eng-Zuid the police recorded 85 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Ooster Eng-Zuid calculated?
Ooster Eng-Zuid scores 9.3 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 Ooster Eng-Zuid 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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