neighbourhood in 's-Hertogenbosch
Maasdal
2,335 residents · postal code 5235 · Part of Maaspoort, 's-Hertogenbosch
Everything close by, little to spend
Maasdal has grown old. More than a quarter of residents are 65 or over, nearly half of all households consist of one person, and the share of children is below the national level. That explains the 5.2 for families, because the primary school here is seven hundred metres away and distance therefore cannot be dragging the figure down.
The 4.0 for wealth & income has two clear sources. Property value is well under the Dutch median, and the social assistance rate is more than three times the national one. The income distribution itself is less skewed than those two numbers suggest.
What the neighbourhood does have is reach: shop, GP, school and restaurant are all within seven hundred metres, good for a 7.9. For an older resident without a car that is probably the figure that matters most.
- no. 8,589 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 60 of 94 in 's-Hertogenbosch
How Maasdal scores
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Is Maasdal a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasdal comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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, 51 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
Maasdal has strikingly few young people aged 15 to 25: 8%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,160 — 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 Maasdal a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasdal comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Maasdal?
In Maasdal the police recorded 51 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Maasdal calculated?
Maasdal scores 5.1 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 Maasdal 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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