neighbourhood in Tilburg

Heikant Oost

1,300 residents · postal code 5011 · Part of Heikant, Tilburg

Top 38% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Heikant Oost is one of the few neighbourhoods where the wealth score genuinely sits in the middle rather than averaging out extremes. Property value stays slightly below the Dutch median, the social assistance rate lands almost exactly on it, and the share of households in the lowest income group is smaller than nationally while the top group is somewhat thinner. A 5.0 that matches every component.

The safety score does not. The 5.5 comes almost entirely from violence, which here is more than twice the national middle; property crime, burglary and vandalism are all below it. That is the reverse of the picture a raised total usually suggests. For anyone moving here with children, school, supermarket and restaurant are each within four hundred metres; the railway station means a trip of more than four kilometres.

no. 4,952 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 64 of 215 in Tilburg

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Is Heikant Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heikant Oost comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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.

Total crime

34.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

8.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 70 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

4.3 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

3.2 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

3.0 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 333,000

Welfare recipients

7.7 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

76%

Social housing

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

85%

Built after 2000

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

4,032 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,717

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.3 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.4 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.8 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Heikant Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+16%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,032 — 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 Heikant Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heikant Oost comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Heikant Oost?

In Heikant Oost the police recorded 70 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Heikant Oost calculated?

Heikant Oost scores 7.2 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 Heikant Oost 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.