neighbourhood in Oss
Macharen
650 residents · postal code 5367 · Part of Macharen, Oss
Room to spare, amenities further off
Macharen has its primary school three hundred metres away and the nearest supermarket over three kilometres off. Those two numbers explain the entire gap between an 8.2 for families and a 3.9 for amenities; it is the same place, only measured against a different yardstick.
The quiet & nature pillar comes out at 8.6, and that does not run through the trees here. The tree canopy nearby is under a third of the national share. What carries the figure is the noise level, over seven decibels below the median, plus plenty of open water and a low building density.
On wealth & income Macharen sits close to the national picture — property value and income distribution barely deviate — with one exception: the social assistance rate here is double the median. At this population size that involves small numbers.
- no. 4,225 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 26 of 90 in Oss
How Macharen scores
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Is Macharen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Macharen comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Macharen 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, 7 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
Macharen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
891 — 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 Macharen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Macharen comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Macharen 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 Macharen?
In Macharen the police recorded 7 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Macharen calculated?
Macharen scores 7.6 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 Macharen 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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