neighbourhood in 's-Hertogenbosch
Empel oost
2,685 residents · postal code 5236 · Part of Empel, 's-Hertogenbosch
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Empel oost was built almost entirely after 2000, more than half of households have children and less than a tenth of residents are over sixty-five. That produces a 9.3 for families, with the primary school six hundred metres away counting for more than the share of children itself.
The brake on the overall score sits with amenities, which stays at 6.2. The supermarket and restaurant are around a kilometre away and the station a good four — in a neighbourhood with low building density, that is the pattern. The wealth & income pillar, by contrast, is strong across its full width: property value is well above the Dutch median, the share of high incomes is more than one and a half times the national one, the bottom income group is narrower than nationally and both social assistance and vacancy stay below the middle.
- no. 223 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 94 in 's-Hertogenbosch
How Empel oost scores
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Is Empel oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Empel oost comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Empel oost 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, 50 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
Empel oost has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 8%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
52% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,439 — around the 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 Empel oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Empel oost comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Empel oost 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 Empel oost?
In Empel oost the police recorded 50 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Empel oost calculated?
Empel oost scores 9.9 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 Empel oost 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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