neighbourhood in Oosterhout

Slotjes-Midden

4,645 residents · postal code 4902 · Part of Slotjes, Oosterhout

Bottom 26% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Slotjes-Midden inverts the usual city picture. Theft here is below the national median, while violence, burglary and vandalism are all above it — vandalism at almost twice the middle. What happens here therefore takes place on the street and at the door, not at the bike racks, and that is the reverse of what a total figure near the median suggests.

The 3.2 for wealth & income comes from every direction: a low property value, a narrow top income group, a wide bottom one, more vacancy than nationally, and a social assistance rate at more than four times the median.

The amenities are there — supermarket, GP and restaurant are within five hundred metres. What is missing is the railway: the station is almost nine kilometres away, a real constraint for a neighbourhood in a town of this size.

no. 9,750 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 31 of 40 in Oosterhout

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Is Slotjes-Midden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Slotjes-Midden comes out at 25 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.

Total crime

24.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

5.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 142 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

8.9 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

1.8 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 311,000

Welfare recipients

36.6 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

42%

Social housing

50%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

57%

Built after 2000

33%

Tick = Dutch median

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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

6,448 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

36%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,090

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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.

Tick = Dutch median

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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

0.7 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

15%

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Who lives here

Slotjes-Midden has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,448 — 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 Slotjes-Midden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Slotjes-Midden comes out at 25 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 Slotjes-Midden?

In Slotjes-Midden the police recorded 142 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Slotjes-Midden calculated?

Slotjes-Midden scores 4.4 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 Slotjes-Midden 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.