neighbourhood in Houten
Oude Dorp
2,050 residents · postal code 3991 · Part of Houten Noord-West, Houten
Safe, but not spacious
The total number of reported offences in Oude Dorp sits just below the national median, and yet safety scores 9.3. That is because the heaviest-weighted types are almost absent here: violence, burglary and vandalism are all three far below the national median. What lifts the total is property crime, more than one and a half times the median — the picture of a neighbourhood where things go missing, not of an unsafe evening.
The 5.1 for quiet & nature is the only figure lagging here, and it does not lie in noise or green: both are around the national median. It is the built environment: almost five thousand people on a square kilometre. The wealth & income figure of 8.1 leans mainly on property value, well above the median, with social assistance clearly below it.
- no. 310 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 48 in Houten
How Oude Dorp scores
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Is Oude Dorp a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Dorp 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, 70 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
Oude Dorp has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,776 — 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 Oude Dorp a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Dorp 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 Oude Dorp?
In Oude Dorp the police recorded 70 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 Oude Dorp calculated?
Oude Dorp scores 9.8 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 Oude Dorp 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 Houten
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Houten.