neighbourhood in Dongen

Centrum

4,245 residents · postal code 5104 · Part of Dongen, Dongen

Bottom 24% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Centrum in Dongen has a third of its residents over sixty-five, and that shows in the families figure: a 6.3, despite a primary school six hundred metres away. Distance is not the problem here, the share of children is.

Quiet & nature comes to a 3.4. Greenery is well below the national median, open water is absent and the noise level is above the median — hardly surprising for a town centre, but it is the figure pulling the overall score down hardest.

With the offences, violence is below the national median while theft and vandalism are above it. That difference tells a reader more than the pillar figure itself: this is about things going missing and about damage, not about what happens on the street after dark.

no. 10,053 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 13 of 14 in Dongen

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 27 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

27.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

12.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 162 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

0.5 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

8.3 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

7.1 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 362,000

Welfare recipients

11.8 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

64%

Social housing

20%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

58%

Built after 2000

28%

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

4,855 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

36%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,876

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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The figures ⌄

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

26%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+33%
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
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,855 — 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 27 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 Centrum?

In Centrum the police recorded 162 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 4.2 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.