neighbourhood in Delft

Centrum

2,665 residents · postal code 2611 · Part of Binnenstad, Delft

Bottom 26% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The safety pillar of Centrum stands at 2.7 and both heavy components point the same way: property offences here run more than six times the Dutch median and violence more than twice. In a city centre with this number of reports, it is not only about things disappearing.

One measurement that stands out less but says a lot: vacancy here is three times the national level, while half of all households fall into the lowest income group. That explains why the wealth & income pillar stays at 4.1 despite a property value just under the Dutch median. Almost eight in ten households in this part of Delft consist of one person, and the share of children is among the lowest in the country. The other side is a 9.9 for amenities: everything is within a few hundred metres, the station a kilometre away.

no. 9,717 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 50 of 75 in Delft

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 79 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum 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.

Total crime

79.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

55.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 414 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.0 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 399,000

Welfare recipients

11.3 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

51%

Vacancy

12%

Owner-occupied

20%

Social housing

27%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

16%

Built after 2000

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

14,488 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

22%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

5,331

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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

0.5 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 37%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–153%
NL median 14%
15–2537%
NL median 11%
25–4539%
NL median 22%
45–6512%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
79% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
5% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
14,488 — 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 Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 79 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum 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 Centrum?

In Centrum the police recorded 414 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (79 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 Centrum calculated?

Centrum scores 4.4 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 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.