neighbourhood in Delft

Centrum-Oost

2,265 residents · postal code 2611 · Part of Binnenstad, Delft

Top 15% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Twelve thousand residents per square kilometre and still a 7.5 for safety: Centrum-Oost in Delft breaks with what you would expect of a city centre. Violence and vandalism are far below the national median and burglary sits exactly on it; only property crime rises well above. This is a centre where things go missing, not a place where you watch your step after dark.

On wealth & income the neighbourhood comes out at 6.5, with a property value above the national median and many high incomes, but with vacancy at double the middle. That vacancy is the only component running against the rest.

Barely one in seven households has children and six in ten consist of one person. That families nevertheless reaches 7.0 is down to the primary school five hundred metres away — the figure here measures accessibility, not the make-up of the neighbourhood.

no. 1,878 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 11 of 75 in Delft

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Is Centrum-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum-Oost comes out at 23 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.

Total crime

23.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

15.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

0.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 78 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

1.5 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

3.1 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 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

€ 475,000

Welfare recipients

8.8 per 1,000

High incomes

29%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

60%

Social housing

17%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

46%

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

12,193 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

37%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,406

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

14%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum-Oost has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–2518%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,193 — 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-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum-Oost comes out at 23 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 Centrum-Oost?

In Centrum-Oost the police recorded 78 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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-Oost calculated?

Centrum-Oost scores 8.9 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 Centrum-Oost 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.