neighbourhood in Deventer

Centrum

2,950 residents · postal code 7411 · Part of Binnenstad, Deventer

Bottom 27% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

The crime figure for Centrum in Deventer is at almost four times the national median, and property offences account for nearly two thirds of it. Burglary, by contrast, is rare: it sits at a fraction of the national median. Violence is well above it, though, so the picture is not only one of disappearing possessions.

One home in nine here is vacant, and that pushes the wealth & income pillar down just as much as property value does. The income distribution barely differs from the national one; it is the rate of social assistance that stands out.

The 7.0 for families is out of step with all this, with a primary school four hundred metres away in a neighbourhood where seven in ten households consist of one person. That pillar mainly measures reachability, and here that is fine.

no. 9,609 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 50 of 65 in Deventer

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 90 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

90.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

7.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

57.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 550 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

0.7 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

0.4 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

€ 298,000

Welfare recipients

44.1 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

11%

Owner-occupied

20%

Social housing

27%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

10%

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

10,564 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

27%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,986

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 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

0.4 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–155%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4541%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
70% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,564 — 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 90 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 550 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (90 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 4.5 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.