neighbourhood in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
Oostendam
3,360 residents · postal code 3341 · Part of Centrum, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
Everything close by, little space
The supermarket, GP, primary school and restaurant are all four hundred metres away or less in Oostendam; only the station takes nearly five kilometres. That is the 9.1 for amenities, and together with the short school distance it also explains the 8.1 for families.
Wealth & income gets no further than a 5.0, and that is a mixed picture rather than a weak one: the top income group here is exactly as broad as nationally and vacancy is lower, but property value stays below the median and social assistance is more than twice as common. Among the crime figures only burglary stands out, at more than double the national median, while violence is below it. What the area costs is quiet: the 4.1 follows from density and noise.
- no. 5,204 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 11 in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
How Oostendam scores
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Is Oostendam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostendam comes out at 23 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, 98 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
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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
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Who lives here
The age profile of Oostendam looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,839 — 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 Oostendam a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostendam comes out at 23 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 Oostendam?
In Oostendam the police recorded 98 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Oostendam calculated?
Oostendam scores 7.0 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 Oostendam 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 Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.
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