neighbourhood in Wageningen
De Buurt-Oost
2,580 residents · postal code 6707 · Part of De Buurt, Wageningen
Everything close by, little to spend
Almost two thirds of households in De Buurt-Oost consist of one person, and that can be read off nearly every figure. The 7.7 for families comes from the school four hundred metres away, not from children — those are in fact scarce here. Anyone reading the pillar name literally gets the wrong idea of who lives here.
The wealth & income pillar stands at 3.0 and that is consistent: the property value is far below the median, the rate of social assistance more than four times the national middle and the share of high incomes about half of normal.
Safety looks worse than it is. The total number of reports is above the median, but that is almost entirely down to property crime; violence and burglary both stay below the national level. Things go missing here, people are rarely bothered.
- no. 9,009 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 33 in Wageningen
How De Buurt-Oost scores
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Is De Buurt-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Buurt-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.
In 2025, 115 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
De Buurt-Oost has strikingly few residents aged 45 to 65: 19%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
63% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,521 — 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 De Buurt-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Buurt-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 De Buurt-Oost?
In De Buurt-Oost the police recorded 115 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 De Buurt-Oost calculated?
De Buurt-Oost scores 4.8 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 De Buurt-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.
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