neighbourhood in Oss
Berghem-Zuid
6,010 residents · postal code 5351 · Part of Berghem, Oss
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Few neighbourhoods in the Netherlands score as highly across the board as Berghem-Zuid, and the striking thing is where that does not come from: amenities sticks at a 5.5. Supermarket and GP are both a good kilometre away, and those are the two components that weigh heaviest in that pillar.
The rest more than makes up for it. On each of the four types of offence the neighbourhood stays below the national median, which yields a 9.9 for safety. And on wealth this is one of the few places where social assistance use is below the Dutch middle, combined with a property value far above it.
Households with children are in the majority here and the primary school is seven hundred metres away; that explains the 8.8 for families.
- no. 319 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 90 in Oss
How Berghem-Zuid scores
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Is Berghem-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Berghem-Zuid comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Berghem-Zuid 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, 82 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
Berghem-Zuid has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
52% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,778 — 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 Berghem-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Berghem-Zuid comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Berghem-Zuid 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 Berghem-Zuid?
In Berghem-Zuid the police recorded 82 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 Berghem-Zuid calculated?
Berghem-Zuid 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 Berghem-Zuid 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 Oss
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Oss.
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