neighbourhood in Gouda
Nieuwe Park Oost
2,240 residents · postal code 2801 · Part of Binnenstad, Gouda
Everything close by, safety lags
The offence rate in Nieuwe Park Oost runs at five times the national median, and eighty per thousand residents of that is property crime — almost nine times the middle. Violence too lies well above it, so the reassuring reading does not hold here. With more than two thousand residents these are numbers that mean something, and the 3.1 for safety follows.
Against it stands the 9.5 for amenities: the GP four hundred metres away, restaurant and supermarket equally close, the station at eight hundred. The primary school is the exception, more than a kilometre off, and that pushes the families pillar down to a 6.5.
Wealth & income comes to a 5.7, and that figure hides a mixed area: a quarter of households have a high income, well above the national rate, while property values stay below the median and vacancy sits slightly above it. More than a quarter of residents are over 65.
- no. 8,097 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 34 of 46 in Gouda
How Nieuwe Park Oost scores
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Is Nieuwe Park Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuwe Park Oost comes out at 121 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nieuwe Park 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, 427 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
Nieuwe Park Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,847 — 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 Nieuwe Park Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuwe Park Oost comes out at 121 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Nieuwe Park 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 Nieuwe Park Oost?
In Nieuwe Park Oost the police recorded 427 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (121 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 Nieuwe Park Oost calculated?
Nieuwe Park Oost scores 5.4 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 Nieuwe Park 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.
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