neighbourhood in Heusden

Elshout

1,855 residents · postal code 5154 · Part of Elshout, Heusden

Top 24% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

Elshout scores 4.4 for amenities and 8.5 for quiet & nature, and that is one and the same fact seen from two sides. The supermarket and GP are over two kilometres away, the railway station almost thirteen — anyone without a car notices that daily. Against it stands a noise level below the national median and a share of greenery well above it.

The primary school is the exception to those distances: it is close by, which is why the families pillar stays at 6.2 rather than lower.

On crime, Elshout is below the national middle on three of the four types; only vandalism is slightly above. The burglary figure is strikingly low, and with almost two thousand residents that gap is too wide to put down to chance.

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no. 8 of 17 in Heusden

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Is Elshout a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elshout comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Elshout 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.

Total crime

16.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

3.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 42 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

2.5 km

GP practice

2.2 km

Train station

12.8 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

2.7 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

2.8 km

Motorway ramp

2.3 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 507,000

Welfare recipients

5.4 per 1,000

High incomes

21%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

80%

Social housing

10%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

97%

Built after 2000

24%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

250 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

74%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

405

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.7 km

Households with children

39%

Childcare

2.3 km

Secondary school

2.4 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Elshout looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+21%
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
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
250 — far less 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 Elshout a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elshout comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Elshout 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 Elshout?

In Elshout the police recorded 42 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Elshout calculated?

Elshout scores 8.3 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 Elshout 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.