neighbourhood in Nederweert
Ospel
2,610 residents · postal code 6035 · Part of Ospel, Nederweert
Safe, but not spacious
In Ospel the supermarket is five hundred metres away and the GP a good three and a half kilometres. That single distance costs the neighbourhood most in the amenities pillar, where GP and supermarket together carry more than forty per cent of the weight; the score of 5.4 is largely explained by it.
The 4.6 for quiet & nature is less obvious for a village in open country. It is quiet here — the noise level is clearly below the national median — but the tree canopy does not reach half the national level and the greenery in the immediate surroundings stays below it too. The 8.7 for safety is the strongest pillar: none of the recorded offence types rises above the national median, with burglary exactly on it.
- no. 6,520 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 15 in Nederweert
How Ospel scores
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Is Ospel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ospel comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ospel 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, 37 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
The age profile of Ospel looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,647 — 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 Ospel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ospel comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ospel 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 Ospel?
In Ospel the police recorded 37 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Ospel calculated?
Ospel scores 6.3 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 Ospel 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 Nederweert
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Nederweert.
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