neighbourhood in Oss

Centrum-Zuid

2,220 residents · postal code 5341 · Part of Centrum, Oss

Bottom 13% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

A 10.0 for amenities next to an overall score of 3.4: Centrum-Zuid is the textbook case of what proximity costs. Everything here is within a few hundred metres, station included, and that is the maximum that pillar can give.

The number of reported offences is more than five times the national middle, and it sits almost entirely in theft, which runs nine times as high. Burglary, by contrast, is below the median. That is the pattern of a shopping area where many people come by day who do not live there — and it makes the per-thousand-residents figure a misleading one, because that denominator describes only the residents.

Of those residents, few have children: under a tenth of households, and a quarter of the population is 65 or older. That is where the 4.7 for families comes from, despite a school close by.

no. 11,445 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 87 of 90 in Oss

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Is Centrum-Zuid a safe 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

123.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

82.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 510 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

0.7 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 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

€ 264,000

Welfare recipients

27.0 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

33%

Social housing

24%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

21%

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

6,087 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,862

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

0.8 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 39%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–155%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4539%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+26%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
65% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,087 — 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 Centrum-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum-Zuid comes out at 123 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum-Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Centrum-Zuid?

In Centrum-Zuid the police recorded 510 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (123 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 Centrum-Zuid calculated?

Centrum-Zuid scores 3.4 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 Centrum-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.