neighbourhood in 's-Hertogenbosch
De Buitenpepers
2,210 residents · postal code 5231 · Part of Noord, 's-Hertogenbosch
Everything close by, except school and childcare
The primary school in De Buitenpepers is eight hundred metres away, so distance is not why the families pillar stalls at a 4.8. It is the population: one in five households has children and just over a tenth of residents are under fifteen, both below the national picture, while nearly a quarter are 65 or older.
Greenery and tree canopy here are well above the national middle, and still quiet & nature gets no further than a 5.7. The noise level is the reason; it is well above the median and counts as heavily in that pillar as the greenery does.
Among offences theft stands out, well above the national middle, while violence and burglary are far below it — burglary at virtually zero. That explains why a neighbourhood with a raised total figure still reaches a 7.2 for safety.
- no. 5,103 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 39 of 94 in 's-Hertogenbosch
How De Buitenpepers scores
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Is De Buitenpepers a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Buitenpepers comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 94 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
De Buitenpepers has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,096 — 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 De Buitenpepers a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Buitenpepers comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.2. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 32 records per 1,000, 1.6 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Buitenpepers?
In De Buitenpepers the police recorded 94 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (32 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 De Buitenpepers calculated?
De Buitenpepers scores 7.1 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 De Buitenpepers 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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