neighbourhood in 's-Hertogenbosch
Het Zilverpark
2,155 residents · postal code 5237 · Part of Maaspoort, 's-Hertogenbosch
Safe, and nowhere really weak
Het Zilverpark belongs to the fifty highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and that is rarer than it sounds: none of the five pillars drops below the national middle here. Such neighbourhoods barely exist, because a high amenities score usually comes at the cost of quiet.
On wealth & income it is striking that no single component carries the score. Property value sits above the median, the top income group is one and a half times as strongly represented as nationally, the lowest thinner, and not a single social assistance payment is recorded in this neighbourhood. All four components point the same way.
The safety score of 9.9 rests on equally broad evidence: of the four offence types not one occurs more often than nationally, burglary hardly at all. The station is more than five kilometres away; that is the only real brake on amenities.
- no. 40 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 94 in 's-Hertogenbosch
How Het Zilverpark scores
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Is Het Zilverpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Zilverpark comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Zilverpark 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, 36 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 Zilverpark has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,076 — 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 Zilverpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Zilverpark comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Het Zilverpark 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 Het Zilverpark?
In Het Zilverpark the police recorded 36 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 Het Zilverpark calculated?
Het Zilverpark scores 10.0 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 Zilverpark 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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