neighbourhood in Oss
Lith
3,035 residents · postal code 5397 · Part of Lith, Oss
Safe streets, thinner wallets
On wealth & income, Lith is almost exactly the Dutch average: property value, share of high incomes, share of low incomes and vacancy all four sit as good as on the national median. Only social assistance is slightly above it. Such a thoroughly average profile is rarer than it sounds, and it is precisely what the 5.9 means.
Where the neighbourhood does stand out is safety: violence, theft and vandalism stay below the national median and burglary barely comes above it. That comes with an 8.6.
The 7.6 for quiet & nature comes from two sides: it is quiet, with noise well below the median, and a sixth of the surface is water. Set against that is the train — the station is more than nine kilometres away, and that holds amenities at a 7.3.
- no. 2,140 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 90 in Oss
How Lith scores
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Is Lith a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lith comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Lith 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, 42 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Oss →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Oss →
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 Lith looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,541 — far 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 Lith a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Lith comes out at 12 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Lith 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 Lith?
In Lith the police recorded 42 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (12 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 Lith calculated?
Lith scores 8.8 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 Lith 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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