neighbourhood in Houten

Mossen

2,420 residents · postal code 3994 · Part of Houten Zuid-Oost, Houten

Top 4% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

Amenities scores 4.0 in Mossen, families 9.8. Both figures are about distance, but about different distances: the primary school is four hundred metres away, while supermarket, GP and restaurant are all a good three kilometres off. Nobody here does the daily shopping on foot.

The 9.9 for safety rests on hard ground: reported offences come to less than half the national middle and burglary is all but absent.

The wealth & income pillar stands at 8.8 and the picture is consistent: high property value, around one and a half times as many high-income households as nationally, little social assistance and little vacancy. The entire housing stock dates from after 2000, in a neighbourhood where almost half of households have children.

no. 478 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 8 of 48 in Houten

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Is Mossen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Mossen comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Mossen 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

10.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

3.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 24 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

3.5 km

GP practice

2.9 km

Train station

2.5 km

Restaurant

3.6 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

2.6 km

Library

4.5 km

Motorway ramp

3.4 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

€ 562,000

Welfare recipients

4.1 per 1,000

High incomes

30%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

71%

Social housing

17%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

77%

Built after 2000

100%

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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

8,172 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

59%

Trees nearby

Water share

15%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,256

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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.

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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

47%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

2.7 km

Residents under 15

18%

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Who lives here

Mossen has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2516%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6532%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
47% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,172 — 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 Mossen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Mossen comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Mossen 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 Mossen?

In Mossen the police recorded 24 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Mossen calculated?

Mossen scores 9.7 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 Mossen 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.