neighbourhood in Oosterhout
Dorst
2,775 residents · postal code 4849 · Part of Dorst, Oosterhout
Safe, but not spacious
Dorst is green, spaciously built and has a tree canopy more than double the national middle. And still quiet & nature stalls at a 5.5. The reason is noise: it sits almost seven decibels above the Dutch median here, and that single reading weighs heavily enough to offset the greenery. Anyone expecting a silent village centre should take that figure seriously.
Wealth is strong across the full width. Property value sits above the national middle, high incomes are well over-represented, low incomes are not, the social assistance rate is less than half the median and vacancy is minimal. All five components point the same way, which is rarer than an 8.7 suggests.
The railway station is more than six kilometres away while supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within seven hundred metres. That makes daily life here short and the commute long.
- no. 339 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 40 in Oosterhout
How Dorst scores
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Is Dorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorst comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorst 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, 41 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
Dorst has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,194 — 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 Dorst a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorst comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorst 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 Dorst?
In Dorst the police recorded 41 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 Dorst calculated?
Dorst 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 Dorst 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Oosterhout.
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