neighbourhood in Breda
Valkenberg
2,710 residents · postal code 4811 · Part of Breda centrum, Breda
Everything close by, safety lags
Four per cent of the residents of Valkenberg are under fifteen and nearly three quarters of households are single-person. That explains the low families score better than the distances do: the primary school is within a kilometre, so the heaviest component of the pillar does not come out unfavourably.
Crime here is almost entirely theft — that figure runs at more than two and a half times the national median, while burglary stays below it. Violence is above the national middle, though, so the picture of possessions disappearing while the street stays calm does not entirely hold.
The 9.8 for amenities is the highest figure in the profile and it is earned: the restaurant is two hundred metres away, supermarket and GP five hundred, the station a little over a kilometre. That is the other side of the same location.
- no. 10,614 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 41 of 55 in Breda
How Valkenberg scores
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Is Valkenberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Valkenberg comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Valkenberg 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, 215 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
Valkenberg has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 28%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–154%
NL median 14%
- 15–2528%
NL median 11%
- 25–4533%
NL median 22%
- 45–6519%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
73% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,936 — 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 Valkenberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Valkenberg comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Valkenberg 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 Valkenberg?
In Valkenberg the police recorded 215 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 Valkenberg calculated?
Valkenberg scores 3.9 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 Valkenberg 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.