neighbourhood in Oss

Dichtersbuurt

2,245 residents · postal code 5344 · Part of Ruwaard, Oss

Bottom 24% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Dichtersbuurt comes out at a 2.6 for wealth & income, and no component contradicts it except vacancy, which sits exactly at the national level. More than seven per cent of residents receive social assistance, nine times the median; a majority of households have a low income and fewer than one in twenty a high one. Property values stop at sixty per cent of the national middle, in a stock that is almost ninety per cent rented.

The offence rate runs at two and a half times the median, and that is almost entirely property crime — four times the middle — while vandalism even stays below it. Violence does lie above the median, so the picture is not only one of vanishing belongings.

Alongside stands a 7.4 for quiet & nature, with a tree canopy at almost twice the national rate, and a 9.3 for amenities: everything, station included, within eight hundred metres.

no. 10,066 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 79 of 90 in Oss

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Is Dichtersbuurt 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

61.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

37.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 176 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 261,000

Welfare recipients

71.3 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

61%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

11%

Social housing

88%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

38%

Built after 2000

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

4,990 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

57%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,072

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.5 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Dichtersbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4518%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+34%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,990 — 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 Dichtersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Dichtersbuurt comes out at 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Dichtersbuurt 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 Dichtersbuurt?

In Dichtersbuurt the police recorded 176 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (61 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 Dichtersbuurt calculated?

Dichtersbuurt scores 4.2 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 Dichtersbuurt 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.