district in Hilversum
Oost
Oost has 6 neighbourhoods with 22,340 residents in total.
Hilversum-Oost is the media town at its most densely built, six neighbourhoods and just over 22,000 residents around the Astronomische Buurt and Liebergen. Amenities score 9.1 and safety 6.5, a strong pairing for such a tightly packed part of town. Wealth and income sit just under the middle at 5.5. Quiet and nature drop to 3.6, the price of pre-war density close to the station. The overall comes to 7.7, though for families the 9.1 tells a friendlier story.
no. 4 of the 9 districts of Hilversum
Short answer: Oost scores 7.7 as a district of Hilversum, no. 4 of the 9 districts of Hilversum. Its strongest neighbourhood is Astronomische Buurt (9.5), the lowest-scoring Kleine Driftbuurt (6.1). The district has 6 neighbourhoods with 22,340 residents in total.
Key figures for Oost
- residents
- 22,340
- neighbourhoods
- 6
- km² of land
- 2.4
How Oost scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 650 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.
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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
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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.
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The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
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Who lives here
Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+13%
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
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,407 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Oost, weighted by population.
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Neighbourhoods in Oost
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