neighbourhood in 's-Hertogenbosch
Maasakker
2,540 residents · postal code 5236 · Part of Empel, 's-Hertogenbosch
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Almost six in ten households in Maasakker have children and few older people live here. That yields an 8.3 for families, and unlike in many neighbourhoods the score does not sit almost entirely in the school distance.
The weakest score is amenities at 5.7, the classic trade-off of an outlying district: for a supermarket you have to travel more than a kilometre and the station is five away. Against that stand a 9.6 for safety, with no offence type rising above the national midpoint, and a 7.5 for quiet & nature with more greenery around than average.
The wealth & income pillar is strong across the board: high property values, many high-income households, fewer low incomes than average, no vacancy and hardly any social assistance. Of the five pillars only one drags the overall 9.8 down.
- no. 308 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 94 in 's-Hertogenbosch
How Maasakker scores
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Is Maasakker a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasakker comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Maasakker 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, 40 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
Maasakker has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6537%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
58% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,150 — 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 Maasakker a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasakker comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Maasakker 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 Maasakker?
In Maasakker the police recorded 40 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Maasakker calculated?
Maasakker scores 9.8 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 Maasakker 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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