neighbourhood in Heusden

Oudheusden

2,695 residents · postal code 5156 · Part of Oudheusden, Heusden

Bottom 41% in the Netherlands

Spacious, but safety lags

There is space enough in Oudheusden: with fewer than five hundred residents per square kilometre and over eighty per cent green within three hundred metres, the quiet & nature pillar yields a 9.2. The nearest railway station is fifteen kilometres away, which keeps the amenities score at 6.9 despite a supermarket and GP within walking distance.

The 3.3 for safety does not fit that rural picture and deserves explaining. Property offences here are below the national middle, but violence is almost twice above it and criminal damage almost three times. So it is not that a lot gets stolen here; other categories are doing the work. On wealth & income all the income components point the same way — a thin top income group, a broad bottom one and a social assistance rate more than three times the national — while vacancy is actually low.

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Is Oudheusden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oudheusden comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

33.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

7.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 127 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

15.0 km

Restaurant

1.7 km

Hospital

6.5 km

Café

1.5 km

Library

0.4 km

Motorway ramp

0.8 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

€ 322,000

Welfare recipients

26.0 per 1,000

High incomes

10%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

58%

Social housing

38%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

95%

Built after 2000

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

471 inw/km²

Noise level

48 dB

Green surroundings

81%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

484

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.5 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

0.4 km

Households with children

35%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

6.1 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oudheusden has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
471 — 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 Oudheusden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oudheusden comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Oudheusden?

In Oudheusden the police recorded 127 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Oudheusden calculated?

Oudheusden scores 5.5 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 Oudheusden 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.