neighbourhood in Oosterhout

Vrachelen-Zuidwest

2,025 residents · postal code 4904 · Part of Vrachelen, Oosterhout

Top 2% in the Netherlands

Safe, but everything is a drive away

The noise level in Vrachelen-Zuidwest is more than nine decibels below the national median, and almost a third of the surroundings within three hundred metres is tree canopy, over three times the usual figure. Those two carry the 9.6 for quiet & nature, in a neighbourhood which, at nearly three thousand residents per square kilometre, is not especially thinly populated.

Against that stands the lowest pillar: a 5.1 for amenities. The supermarket is walkable, but the doctor is more than one and a half kilometres away and the station nine. The 8.7 for wealth & income leans on property value and on a broad top income group; the bottom group sits practically at the national median, so this is not a neighbourhood without lower incomes.

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Is Vrachelen-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vrachelen-Zuidwest comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vrachelen-Zuidwest is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

13.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

5.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 28 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

0.8 km

GP practice

1.6 km

Train station

9.0 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

2.7 km

Library

2.8 km

Motorway ramp

3.9 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

€ 558,000

Welfare recipients

4.9 per 1,000

High incomes

32%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

84%

Social housing

15%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

71%

Built after 2000

99%

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

2,726 inw/km²

Noise level

42 dB

Green surroundings

59%

Trees nearby

32%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

927

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.1 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

0.6 km

Households with children

38%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

12%

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Who lives here

Vrachelen-Zuidwest has strikingly few residents aged 25 to 45: 13%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4513%
NL median 22%
45–6536%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,726 — 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-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Vrachelen-Zuidwest?

In Vrachelen-Zuidwest the police recorded 28 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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-Zuidwest calculated?

Vrachelen-Zuidwest scores 9.9 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-Zuidwest 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.