neighbourhood in 's-Hertogenbosch
Het Zand
2,560 residents · postal code 5211 · Part of Binnenstad, 's-Hertogenbosch
Everything close by, little space
Het Zand records more than five times as many offences as the national median; this is no rounding issue. Property crime is at almost eight times the national level and violence at nearly seven — this is not a neighbourhood where only bicycles go missing. The 3.4 for safety is, if anything, generous.
It partly explains itself: two thirds of households consist of one person and only six per cent of residents are under fifteen. This is a nightlife area where the reports are counted against a small number of permanent residents.
Against that stands a 9.7 for amenities, with GP, restaurant and station all within half a kilometre. And the quiet & nature pillar stays at 3.3 because of a noise level almost ten decibels above the national median — the most tangible price of this location.
- no. 10,636 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 76 of 94 in 's-Hertogenbosch
How Het Zand scores
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Is Het Zand a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Zand comes out at 127 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Zand 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, 736 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
Het Zand has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–156%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4541%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
66% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,306 — 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 Het Zand a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Zand comes out at 127 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Zand 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 Het Zand?
In Het Zand the police recorded 736 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (127 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 Het Zand calculated?
Het Zand scores 3.9 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 Het Zand 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 's-Hertogenbosch
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of 's-Hertogenbosch.
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