neighbourhood in Oss
Hertogenbuurt
2,945 residents · postal code 5346 · Part of Krinkelhoek, Oss
Everything close by, little to spend
The number of reported offences in Hertogenbuurt is almost twice the national figure, and yet safety scores a 5.2. That is not a flaw but a matter of type. Property offences run at more than double the national median and criminal damage above it, but violence sits exactly on it and burglary below — and it is precisely those two that weigh heaviest in this pillar.
What pulls the neighbourhood to an overall 4.9 is wealth & income. Property values stay far below the national median, higher incomes are scarce here, and the social assistance rate is a multiple of the national one.
The 8.3 for families leans on short distances: the primary school is around the corner. The GP asks more, a good kilometre, but that counts towards amenities and not towards the families score.
- no. 8,908 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 68 of 90 in Oss
How Hertogenbuurt scores
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Is Hertogenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hertogenbuurt comes out at 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hertogenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 165 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
Hertogenbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,474 — 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 Hertogenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hertogenbuurt comes out at 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hertogenbuurt 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 Hertogenbuurt?
In Hertogenbuurt the police recorded 165 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (43 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 Hertogenbuurt calculated?
Hertogenbuurt scores 4.9 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 Hertogenbuurt 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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