neighbourhood in Veldhoven
Oerle
2,905 residents · postal code 5507 · Part of Oerle, Veldhoven
Well-off, and well out of town
Oerle scores 7.9 for families even though barely more children live here than is usual nationally and almost a quarter of residents are over 65. That is not a flaw in the figures but a result of what the pillar measures: nearly two thirds of it is the distance to school and childcare, and the primary school here is six hundred metres away. An ageing place can come out this high without there being many young families.
The 9.3 for wealth and income is almost entirely property value. Homes sit well above the national middle value, social assistance below it, and the top income group is clearly broader than average — though the bottom income group here is not much thinner than elsewhere.
Against that stands a 5.2 for amenities. The supermarket is two kilometres away and the station almost eight. In a neighbourhood at this building density, far below the urban level, that means taking the car for the daily shop.
- no. 753 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 17 in Veldhoven
How Oerle scores
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Is Oerle a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oerle comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oerle 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, 33 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
The age profile of Oerle looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+23%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,403 — far less 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 Oerle a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oerle comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oerle 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 Oerle?
In Oerle the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Oerle calculated?
Oerle scores 9.6 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 Oerle 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Veldhoven.
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