neighbourhood in Oosterhout
Vrachelen-Noordwest
1,880 residents · postal code 4906 · Part of Vrachelen, Oosterhout
Well-off, and well out of town
Every home in Vrachelen-Noordwest was built this century, and it shows in the population: almost three in ten residents are under fifteen, and there are hardly any over-65s.
Wealth & income comes out at 9.5 and that figure is solid. Property value is well above the national median, the top income group is almost twice as broad as national, the bottom one narrower, no social assistance is registered and vacancy is minimal — all five components point the same way.
What stands out is that the families pillar does not follow. The primary school is over a kilometre away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar; hence the 7.5 lags behind the rest, despite all the children living there.
- no. 896 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 40 in Oosterhout
How Vrachelen-Noordwest scores
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Is Vrachelen-Noordwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vrachelen-Noordwest comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vrachelen-Noordwest 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, 17 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
Vrachelen-Noordwest has strikingly many children under 15: 29%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1529%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
60% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,154 — 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 Vrachelen-Noordwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vrachelen-Noordwest comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vrachelen-Noordwest 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 Vrachelen-Noordwest?
In Vrachelen-Noordwest the police recorded 17 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 Vrachelen-Noordwest calculated?
Vrachelen-Noordwest scores 9.5 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 Vrachelen-Noordwest 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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