neighbourhood in Breda

Kesteren

3,670 residents · postal code 4822 · Part of Breda noord-west, Breda

Bottom 27% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Kesteren has the reach that many neighbourhoods pay for: school six hundred metres away, supermarket and GP within a kilometre, the railway station just over one. That yields an 8.1 for families, and it makes the rest of the picture all the sharper.

Because the safety pillar stalls at a 4.2, and that is not down to theft — property offences sit below the national median. It is violence and vandalism, both at roughly double that, which weigh the score down. On wealth almost every measurement points the same way: property values well below the national median, few high incomes, many low ones and a social assistance rate more than four times the national one. The exception is vacancy, which is close to nil.

no. 9,549 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 34 of 55 in Breda

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Is Kesteren a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kesteren 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.

Total crime

25.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

7.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 129 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

7.3 km

Café

1.7 km

Library

2.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 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

€ 304,000

Welfare recipients

35.4 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

39%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

80%

Built after 2000

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

4,785 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

53%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,299

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.6 km

Households with children

37%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

2.4 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kesteren has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,785 — 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 Kesteren a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kesteren 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 Kesteren?

In Kesteren the police recorded 129 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 Kesteren calculated?

Kesteren scores 4.5 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 Kesteren 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.