neighbourhood in Brummen

Brummen Centrum

1,495 residents · postal code 6971 · Part of Brummen, Brummen

Bottom 30% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Brummen Centrum reaches 9.5 for amenities: supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within four hundred metres and the station within nine hundred. And still the families pillar stalls at 4.6, even though the primary school is six hundred metres away. That is not a contradiction but a clue: if distance is not the cause, it lies in who lives here. More than four in ten residents are 65 or older and not even a tenth is under fifteen.

The 3.7 for safety comes almost entirely from property offences, which run more than twice the national middle. Violence sits here almost exactly on the Dutch median. That is the profile of a retail core with plenty of people passing through by day. The vacancy rate of around nine per cent, well over double the national figure, belongs to the same story.

no. 9,258 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 32 of 36 in Brummen

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Is Brummen Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Brummen Centrum comes out at 35 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

35.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

21.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 79 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.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

6.8 km

Café

5.5 km

Library

0.5 km

Motorway ramp

0.8 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

€ 345,000

Welfare recipients

13.4 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

51%

Social housing

41%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

61%

Built after 2000

15%

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

2,623 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

59%

Trees nearby

15%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

943

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.9 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

23%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

6.8 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Brummen Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 42%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4516%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+42%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,623 — 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 Brummen Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Brummen Centrum comes out at 35 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Brummen Centrum?

In Brummen Centrum the police recorded 79 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (35 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 Brummen Centrum calculated?

Brummen Centrum scores 4.7 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 Brummen Centrum 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.