neighbourhood in 's-Hertogenbosch
Maasstroom
1,920 residents · postal code 5235 · Part of Maaspoort, 's-Hertogenbosch
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are all four below the national middle in Maasstroom. The 7.9 for safety therefore does not rest on one favourable figure masking the rest, but on the whole series.
The wealth & income pillar shows the reverse: not everything points the same way there. The share of households on a low income is exactly national and the top income group sits just below it, but the number of social assistance benefits per thousand residents is a multiple of the median. That single component pulls the figure down, not a broad picture of poverty.
That the quiet & nature pillar comes out at 7.0 with over six thousand residents per square kilometre is striking. Density counts for only a fifth there, and greenery, water and tree canopy all three offset it.
- no. 4,980 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 38 of 94 in 's-Hertogenbosch
How Maasstroom scores
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Is Maasstroom a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasstroom comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Maasstroom 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, 31 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
Maasstroom has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,729 — 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 Maasstroom a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Maasstroom comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Maasstroom 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 Maasstroom?
In Maasstroom the police recorded 31 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Maasstroom calculated?
Maasstroom scores 7.1 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 Maasstroom 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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