Politie · Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

Dutch source

Registered nuisance by neighbourhood

Every month the police count how many nuisance reports came in, per neighbourhood and per type: from confused persons and youth to noise and drugs. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) publishes the figures as an open table, one month after the fact.

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Up to date · updated 13 hours ago · latest period: 2026 september · checked 17:05

A growing share of nuisance involves confused persons

Registered nuisance in the Netherlands per month, January 2012 to September 2026. In 2025, 37% of all registrations involved a confused person, up from 16% in 2012.

Source: Politie via CBS, tabel 47024NED · opgehaald 15 oktober 2026

Among large municipalities, Utrecht registers the most nuisance per resident

Registered nuisance per 1,000 residents in 2025, by municipality. National: 25.6. Places with many visitors, such as Zandvoort and Schiermonnikoog, rank high because visitors don't count as residents.

Source: Politie via CBS (47024NED), inwoners CBS · grenzen CBS/Kadaster 2025

What can you do with it?4 ideas

Getting started

Compare your neighbourhood with the rest of your municipality

Divide reports by residents and put your neighbourhood next to others in the same municipality. That's fairer than a national ranking.

Getting started

Find the seasonal rhythm

Nuisance peaks in summer and around New Year. Plot each year as its own line and the pattern jumps out.

Advanced

Fact-check: 'nuisance is rising'

Compare the same months with last year, not the latest month with the previous one. Mind the March 2021 break if you look further back.

Advanced

Confused persons and mental health care

Put reports about confused persons next to mental health care use per neighbourhood. Correct for income and density, or you mostly measure urbanity.

How to process it5 steps

Choose your areas
Look up codes in the boundary map. Codes have a fixed length: GM + 4 digits, WK + 6, BU + 8.
Fetch the monthly figures
Filter by area and type of nuisance. Pad keys with spaces to their fixed length and paginate per 10,000 rows.
```
https://dataderden.cbs.nl/ODataApi/OData/47024NED/TypedDataSet?$filter=WijkenEnBuurten eq 'BU03630000' &$skip=0
```
Tidy the table
Convert Perioden to a date ('2026MM09' becomes 2026-09) and strip spaces from keys. Rows with no reports are missing: count them as zero.
Divide by residents
Join residents from the key figures on neighbourhood code. Leave out tiny neighbourhoods, where one report becomes an outlier.
Reload everything monthly
The police revise earlier months. A monthly refresh therefore reloads the full series, not just the newest month.

Interesting combinations

buurtcode (BU)

Do low-income neighbourhoods have more nuisance?

Income and residents per neighbourhood are in the key figures. In Staat van the link between low income and nuisance was strong (ρ ≈ 0.58).

Combine with Key figures for districts and neighbourhoods

buurtcode (BU)

Where in the city is the nuisance?

The boundaries turn the table into a map. Use boundaries from the same year as the figures' classification.

Combine with District and neighbourhood map

datum (maand)

Does warm weather bring more nuisance?

Average temperature per month and compare with reports. Correct for season and New Year.

Combine with KNMI daily weather data

Similar sources

Registered crime by neighbourhood
Crimes instead of nuisance: reports and registrations of offences.
V
Veiligheidsmonitor (CBS) not in the index yet
A survey: how safe people feel and what they experienced, even if they didn't report it.
MO
Meldingen openbare ruimte (gemeenten) not in the index yet
Reports to the city about litter, noise and broken streets. Different desk, different people reporting.

What to watch out for

A registration is not an incident
What nobody reports isn't in the data. How often people call the police differs by neighbourhood and by type of nuisance.
Series break in March 2021
The police changed how reports are recorded. 'Confused person' in particular jumped. Don't compare 2020 with 2022 at face value.
Figures are revised later
Earlier months are revised retroactively. Reload the full series instead of appending only the newest month.
Always the latest neighbourhood boundaries
CBS recalculates the whole series to the most recent boundaries. Codes from old files may no longer exist.
API pitfalls
Keys are padded with spaces ('NL00 '); without them you get nothing back. At most 10,000 rows per request. The Feed endpoint applies only the first filter and silently ignores the rest.

APIOData v3 · read 15 Oct 2026

StandardOData v3docs

Access no key

No key or account; the description and our call work anonymously. tested

Size31,798,062

rows (cells) in TypedDataSet tested

Formats

JSONAtom/XML

Base URL

https://dataderden.cbs.nl/ODataApi/OData/47024NED

Endpoints 8

GET/TableInfostitle, summary, period and modification date of the table
GET/UntypedDataSetthe figures, all values as text
GET/TypedDataSetthe figures, with numbers as numbers
GET/DataPropertiesall columns: dimensions and topics with unit
GET/CategoryGroupsgrouping of categories
GET/Overlastcodes and names of dimension Overlast
GET/WijkenEnBuurtencodes and names of dimension WijkenEnBuurten
GET/Periodencodes and names of dimension Perioden

Filtering platform

OData expressions in $filter, keys in single quotes

eqnegtgeltleandorsubstringof()startswith()

Parameters 6

`$filter`	select rows, e.g. WijkenEnBuurten eq 'GM0363 '	platform
`$select`	only these columns	platform
`$top / $skip`	paging	platform
`$orderby`	sorting	platform
`$format`	json or atom	platform
`$count`	after a path: count only	platform

Dimensions · = space in the key

Dimension	Codes	Examples
`Overlast` Overlast	9	`0.0.0·` Totaal registraties overlast `E33···` Overlast door verward persoon `E35···` Melding overlast jeugd
`WijkenEnBuurten` Wijken en buurten · Wijk- en buurtindeling 2025	18,498	`NL00······` Nederland `GM1680····` Aa en Hunze `WK168000··` Wijk 00 Annen
`Perioden` Perioden	191	`2012MM01` 2012 januari `2012MM02` 2012 februari `2012MM03` 2012 maart

Fields 3

Name	Type	Meaning
`GeregistreerdeOverlast_1` Geregistreerde overlast	long · aantal	Totaal van de geregistreerde overlast. Bron is de politieregistratie Basis Voorziening Informatie (BVI).
`Gemeentenaam_2` Gemeentenaam	string · naam	De naam van de bestuurlijke gemeente. Deze naam volgt de officiële schrijfwijze.
`SoortRegio_3` Soort regio	string · omschrijving	De gekozen regioaanduiding betreft: Gemeente, Wijk of Buurt.

Limits and pitfalls

At most 10,000 rows per request; page with $skip. experience
Keys are padded with spaces to a fixed length: 'GM0363 ', '0.0.0 ', 'E33 '. Without the spaces you get an empty list, not an error. experience
The Feed endpoint applies only the first $filter predicate and silently ignores the rest. Use TypedDataSet. experience
TableInfos.Modified changes almost daily (metadata). For freshness, look at the highest Perioden key. experience
Past months are revised retroactively. Always reload the full series. experience
Python urllib (LibreSSL on macOS) fails on cbs.nl's TLS; use curl or Node fetch. experience

Try it HTTP 200 · 58 ms · 15 Oct

https://dataderden.cbs.nl/ODataApi/OData/47024NED/TypedDataSet?$filter=WijkenEnBuurten eq 'GM0363    ' and Overlast eq '0.0.0 '&$top=3

{
  "odata.metadata": "https://dataderden.cbs.nl/ODataApi/OData/47024NED/$metadata#Cbs.OData.WebAPI.TypedDataSet",
  "value": [
    {
      "ID": 223470,
      "Overlast": "0.0.0 ",
      "WijkenEnBuurten": "GM0363    ",
      "Perioden": "2012MM01",
      "GeregistreerdeOverlast_1": 991,
      "Gemeentenaam_2": "Amsterdam                     ",
      "SoortRegio_3": "Gemeente"
    },
    {
      "ID": 223471,
      "Overlast": "0.0.0 ",
      "WijkenEnBuurten": "GM0363    ",
      "Perioden": "2012MM02",
      "GeregistreerdeOverlast_1": 898,
      "Gemeentenaam_2": "Amsterdam                     ",
      "SoortRegio_3": "Gemeente"
    }
  ]
}

Shortened response, saved at harvest time. Click the URL for the real, current response.

Read from service document (list of endpoints) · dimensions and topics · full data model (XML). Labels: from the description stated in what the api itself publishes. tested from our own small call. platform applies to every api on this platform, per its documentation. experience learned while building bronwijzer.

How to fetch it

curl "https://dataderden.cbs.nl/ODataApi/OData/47024NED/TypedDataSet?\$filter=WijkenEnBuurten%20eq%20'GM0363%20%20%20%20'%20and%20Overlast%20eq%20'0.0.0%20'"

Used by

Staat vanNuisance per neighbourhood per month, with map and comparisons
Politie DataportaalThe police's own table viewer

Questions this source helps answer

Is there more nuisance in my neighbourhood than last year?3 sources

See how this page is built

bron: politie-overlast
blokken:
  - type: lijnreeks
    data: overlast
  - type: choropleth
    data: gemeenten
secties:
  - ideeen
  - verwerken
  - koppelingen
  - vergelijkbaar
  - beperkingen
  - code
  - gebruiktDoor
cache:
  tag: bron:politie-overlast
  ververs: na statuscheck, als de bron nieuwer is
statuscheck:
  methode: CBS TableInfos.Modified + nieuwste Perioden-sleutel
  verwacht: maandelijks

Source: content/bronnen/politie-overlast.yaml · Markdown