neighbourhood in Bernheze
De Beemd
2,075 residents · postal code 5384 · Part of Kern Heesch, Bernheze
Safe, and nowhere really weak
Over seventy per cent of the immediate surroundings of De Beemd counts as green and the tree canopy is above the national middle; together with low building density that yields a 7.6 for quiet & nature.
The overall score of 9.6 rests not on one outlier but on the absence of weak spots: no pillar drops below six. Safety lifts the whole, with all four types of offence below the national median.
The 7.8 for families is notable, because the primary school is more than a kilometre away and school distance is the heaviest item in that pillar. What offsets it is the population itself: the share of households with children and the share of residents under fifteen are both clearly above the national middle. Amenities remain the weakest point — supermarket and station are both at a distance.
- no. 729 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 53 in Bernheze
How De Beemd scores
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Is De Beemd a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Beemd comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Beemd is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 38 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 Beemd has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,772 — 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 De Beemd a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Beemd comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Beemd is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Beemd?
In De Beemd the police recorded 38 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Beemd calculated?
De Beemd scores 9.6 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 Beemd 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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