neighbourhood in Venray

Oostrum

2,550 residents · postal code 5807 · Part of Oostrum, Venray

Bottom 14% in the Netherlands

Spacious, but safety lags

Oostrum is a sprawling neighbourhood with fewer than 250 residents per square kilometre, and that yields an 8.8 for quiet & nature. That is exactly where the good news stops.

Violent offences here are more than five times as frequent as in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and theft stands out too. Together they push the safety pillar down to 2.9 and the overall score to 3.5. That is a result you rarely see in a thinly populated area: space and safety do not go together here.

Otherwise Oostrum is ordinary to middling. Property values are below the national median, the social assistance rate far below it, and the distances to a supermarket and a doctor are on the long side at more than two kilometres. Living here means needing a car for the daily shopping.

no. 11,266 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 27 of 32 in Venray

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Is Oostrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oostrum comes out at 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oostrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

62.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

12.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

26.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 235 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

2.4 km

GP practice

2.2 km

Train station

1.2 km

Restaurant

2.8 km

Hospital

4.8 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

4.0 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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

€ 365,000

Welfare recipients

3.9 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

74%

Social housing

12%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

91%

Built after 2000

23%

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

249 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

54%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

410

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.3 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

0.7 km

Households with children

28%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

3.7 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Oostrum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
249 — 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 Oostrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oostrum comes out at 62 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oostrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Oostrum?

In Oostrum the police recorded 235 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (62 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 Oostrum calculated?

Oostrum scores 3.5 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 Oostrum 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.