neighbourhood in Baarn

Centrum

1,830 residents · postal code 3743 · Part of Baarn, Baarn

Top 22% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Of the nearly thirteen thousand neighbourhoods with an amenities score, the Centrum of Baarn ranks in the top twenty-five. Supermarket, GP, primary school and restaurant are all within half a kilometre here, the station within a kilometre. Few towns of this size have provision that complete.

The 6.9 for families cannot be explained by that, and that is precisely the insight. The school is around the corner, so distance — the heaviest component of the pillar — cannot be depressing the score. What does is the population profile: fewer than one in five households has children and more than half of all households consist of a single person.

A second signal that comes with a town centre: vacancy here runs more than twice the national middle, and so does the number of acts of vandalism. It is one of the few places where the wealth & income pillar shows a clear minus.

no. 2,863 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 10 of 21 in Baarn

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

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

Total crime

30.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

12.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 108 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.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.1 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

0.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 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

€ 465,000

Welfare recipients

10.9 per 1,000

High incomes

27%

Low incomes

32%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

54%

Social housing

11%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

30%

Built after 2000

12%

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

5,570 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

51%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,398

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.8 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

0.3 km

Households with children

17%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.8 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum has strikingly few children under 15: 10%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+26%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
57% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,570 — 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 Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 31 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 Centrum?

In Centrum the police recorded 108 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 Centrum calculated?

Centrum scores 8.4 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 Centrum 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.