neighbourhood in Breda
Ulvenhout
4,605 residents · postal code 4851 · Part of Ulvenhout, Breda
Well-off, and comfortable across the board
Ulvenhout ranks among the five hundred highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the country with a 9.7, and the wealth & income pillar does most of that work: a property value far above the national median, a wide top income group, little vacancy. Only the social assistance rate is slightly above the middle — the one measurement pointing the other way.
There is a single crack in the crime figures. Violence, theft and vandalism are all far below the national median, but burglary is at three times the middle. That is why the safety pillar stays at 8.5 and no higher.
The weak point is access: the station is almost seven kilometres away, and that pushes the amenities pillar down to 6.7 even though supermarket, school and restaurant are all within seven hundred metres here. The noise level is noticeably below the median.
- no. 464 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 55 in Breda
How Ulvenhout scores
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Is Ulvenhout a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ulvenhout comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ulvenhout is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 87 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
Ulvenhout has strikingly few residents aged 25 to 45: 15%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4515%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,652 — 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 Ulvenhout a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ulvenhout comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Ulvenhout is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Ulvenhout?
In Ulvenhout the police recorded 87 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Ulvenhout calculated?
Ulvenhout scores 9.7 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 Ulvenhout 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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