neighbourhood in Bladel
Bladel Hofstad
2,015 residents · postal code 5531 · Part of Bladel, Bladel
Good for children, with a safety question
The offence profile of Bladel Hofstad is the reverse of what you see in a city. Theft lies well below the national median here, but violence comes out at nearly double it and vandalism at more than double. Little disappears; something does happen — and that is why safety stalls at a 4.4 while the total number of recorded offences barely deviates from the national middle.
At more than twenty kilometres, the distance to the station is among the greatest found in the Netherlands. Even so the neighbourhood reaches a 6.7 for amenities, because everything you need daily — supermarket, GP, school — is within eight hundred metres. Anyone travelling by rail from here plans it as an outing.
Wealth & income sits mid-table and is strikingly even: incomes and social assistance barely deviate from the national picture, property value lies slightly above it and vacancy is low. What carries the families score of 8.9 is the short school distance, because a quarter of residents are over 65.
- no. 5,398 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 22 in Bladel
How Bladel Hofstad scores
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Is Bladel Hofstad a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bladel Hofstad comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 64 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
The age profile of Bladel Hofstad looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,322 — 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 Bladel Hofstad a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bladel Hofstad comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bladel Hofstad?
In Bladel Hofstad the police recorded 64 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Bladel Hofstad calculated?
Bladel Hofstad scores 6.9 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 Bladel Hofstad 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Bladel.
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