neighbourhood in Neder-Betuwe
Ochten
4,390 residents · postal code 4051 · Part of Echteld, Neder-Betuwe
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Ochten records less than half the national number of offences, and that holds for every type except violence, which stays around the median. Burglary comes out at a third of the national level. That is how the 9.3 for safety arises.
The 9.5 for families here comes from both sides of that pillar: the primary school is four hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children. That is a rare combination, because in most neighbourhoods distance alone carries the score.
Amenities lag at a 5.9, and that is not down to the everyday essentials. Supermarket and GP are close by; the restaurant is more than two kilometres away and the station almost four. Anyone wanting to eat out here takes the car.
- no. 2,105 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 18 in Neder-Betuwe
How Ochten scores
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Is Ochten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ochten comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ochten 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.
In 2025, 52 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
Ochten has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
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
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,296 — 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 Ochten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ochten comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ochten 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 Ochten?
In Ochten the police recorded 52 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 Ochten calculated?
Ochten scores 8.8 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 Ochten 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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