neighbourhood in Breda

City

2,680 residents · postal code 4811 · Part of Breda centrum, Breda

Bottom 9% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The number of registered offences in City is more than eight times the Dutch median, and this is not a matter of small numbers: with a population of this size it means hundreds of reports a year. Property crime carries the lion's share, but violence too runs more than seventeen times the national middle. The nightlife traffic of the whole of Breda ends up in these figures, not just the lives of the people who live here.

The families pillar of 3.6 belongs to the same picture. The primary school is a good kilometre away, and that component weighs heaviest in the pillar; on top of that fewer than one in twenty households here have children and seven in ten consist of one person. On wealth & income, vacancy stands out: it is twice the national level, in a neighbourhood where property value stays below the median.

no. 11,941 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 48 of 55 in Breda

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Is City a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, City comes out at 202 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: City is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

202.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

40.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

116.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

10.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 1,237 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.8 km

Train station

1.8 km

Restaurant

0.0 km

Hospital

2.1 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

3.9 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

€ 336,000

Welfare recipients

11.2 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

23%

Social housing

14%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

20%

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

6,586 inw/km²

Noise level

52 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

4,387

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.1 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

1.3 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

City has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 30%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–152%
NL median 14%
15–2530%
NL median 11%
25–4543%
NL median 22%
45–6515%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
72% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
4% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,586 — 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 City a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, City comes out at 202 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: City 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 City?

In City the police recorded 1,237 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (202 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 City calculated?

City scores 3.2 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 City 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.