neighbourhood in Oss
Geffen
4,200 residents · postal code 5386 · Part of Geffen, Oss
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Three quarters of the surroundings of Geffen is green and yet quiet & nature stalls at a 6.5. The noise level sits exactly at the national median, open water is absent and the tree canopy stays below the middle — plenty of green here is mostly open space.
Wealth & income is strikingly average. The share of high and the share of low incomes both sit exactly at the national median; only property value comes clearly above it. A 6.2 that says nothing other than that nothing in particular is going on.
What does stand out is safety: the crime rate is a little over half the national median and only burglary comes slightly above it. The station almost five kilometres away is the price for that, and that connection is explained nowhere else on this page.
- no. 2,526 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 13 of 90 in Oss
How Geffen scores
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Is Geffen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Geffen comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Geffen 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, 69 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
The age profile of Geffen looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,954 — less 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 Geffen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Geffen comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Geffen 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 Geffen?
In Geffen the police recorded 69 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Geffen calculated?
Geffen scores 8.6 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 Geffen 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Oss.
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