neighbourhood in Hoeksche Waard
Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied
550 residents · postal code 3262 · Part of Oud-Beijerland, Hoeksche Waard
Well-off, and well out of town
Forty-seven residents per square kilometre, and a property value exceeding the national median by well over a hundred and fifty thousand euros — Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied is the prosperous part of the municipality, with a 9.4 for that pillar. No social assistance is recorded and the share of high incomes is above the national median.
The safety score needs a caveat. Property crime here is far above the national figure, but this is an area with a few hundred residents: every report weighs heavily in a ratio. What the pattern does show is that it concerns belongings and not burglary — that figure stays well below the median.
The price of the countryside sits in the other two pillars. Amenities come out at 3.7 and families at 3.9, and that is pure distance: shop, GP and school are all kilometres away, the station almost twenty.
- no. 9,441 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 28 of 39 in Hoeksche Waard
How Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied scores
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Is Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied 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, 43 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
Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 36%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6536%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
47 — 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 Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied 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 Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied?
In Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied the police recorded 43 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied calculated?
Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied scores 4.6 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 Oud-Beijerland Buitengebied 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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