neighbourhood in Breda

Belcrum

4,490 residents · postal code 4815 · Part of Breda noord, Breda

Bottom 41% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Belcrum is among the lowest quiet & nature scores in the country: a 2.5, on barely a fifth greenery within three hundred metres, a thin tree canopy, no water and a noise level far above the median.

The safety score of 3.3 comes from theft and violence, both a multiple of the national median. Burglary, by contrast, occurs less often here than average — that is the pattern of a neighbourhood with a lot passing through, not one that gets broken into.

And yet this is not a neighbourhood falling behind financially: the wealth & income pillar reaches 6.8, with many top incomes, few low ones and almost no vacancy. The residents are young — there are few people over 65 here — and everything is within a few hundred metres, the railway station included. What you buy is access, and what you pay for it sits in the other two scores.

no. 7,824 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 31 of 55 in Breda

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Is Belcrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Belcrum comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Belcrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.

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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

58.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

8.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

25.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 377 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

3.3 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.6 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

€ 415,000

Welfare recipients

13.4 per 1,000

High incomes

29%

Low incomes

31%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

53%

Social housing

13%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

54%

Built after 2000

37%

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

8,503 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

22%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,722

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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

0.5 km

Households with children

28%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Belcrum has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 38%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4538%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+11%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
41% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,503 — 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 Belcrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Belcrum comes out at 58 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Belcrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Belcrum?

In Belcrum the police recorded 377 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (58 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 Belcrum calculated?

Belcrum scores 5.5 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 Belcrum 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.