neighbourhood in Breda
Zandberg
5,065 residents · postal code 4818 · Part of Breda oost, Breda
Everything close by, little space
Zandberg is expensive and densely built, and the 5.7 for safety shows what that costs. Not in violence — that is less common there than average. It is burglary and theft that push the figure down; burglaries are counted more than twice as often here as nationally. The risk lies in what you own, not in what you come across in the street at night.
The 3.8 for quiet does not come from where you would look for it either. The noise level, in fact, lies below the Dutch median. What brings that pillar down is the built environment: many residents on little land, little greenery within three hundred metres and no water of any significance.
One figure does not fit the picture of a sought-after neighbourhood. More stands empty here than usual, while property values come out far above the median and a good third of households have a high income. What lies behind that, the figures do not say.
- no. 2,094 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 55 in Breda
How Zandberg scores
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Is Zandberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zandberg comes out at 24 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.
In 2025, 210 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
Zandberg has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 16%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,884 — 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 Zandberg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Zandberg comes out at 24 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 Zandberg?
In Zandberg the police recorded 210 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Zandberg calculated?
Zandberg scores 8.8 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 Zandberg 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.