neighbourhood in Breda
Sportpark
3,365 residents · postal code 4818 · Part of Breda oost, Breda
Everything close by, safety lags
Social assistance is almost three times less common in Sportpark than in the average Dutch neighbourhood, property value is well above the national median and a third of households are in the top income group. So that 8.3 for wealth & income does not hang on a single figure; only vacancy is ordinary.
All the more striking, then, is the 3.2 for safety. Violence is recorded here almost twice as often as nationally and vandalism nearly as much, while property crime is only slightly above the median. The classic picture of wealth combined mainly with things going missing does not apply. Amenities, meanwhile, are all within six hundred metres, which explains the 9.3 on that pillar — and keeps the overall score of 7.8 upright.
- no. 3,841 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 55 in Breda
How Sportpark scores
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Is Sportpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sportpark comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sportpark 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.
In 2025, 207 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
Sportpark has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,841 — 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 Sportpark a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sportpark comes out at 37 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sportpark 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 Sportpark?
In Sportpark the police recorded 207 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (37 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 Sportpark calculated?
Sportpark scores 7.8 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 Sportpark 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Breda
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Breda.