neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Barrier
2,040 residents · postal code 5622 · Part of Erp, Eindhoven
Everything close by, little space
Barrier has everything within seven hundred metres — supermarket, GP, school, restaurant — and that produces an 8.6 for amenities. The flip side is a 3.2 for quiet & nature: green in the surroundings reaches only two thirds of the national median, noise is above it, there is no surface water and almost eight thousand people live per square kilometre.
Among offences, burglary stands out at more than twice the national median, while violence, property crime and vandalism all three stay below it. That explains the 5.7 for safety given a total barely above the national median. The wealth & income pillar stops at 5.1 and is not clear-cut: the share of high incomes sits practically on the median, the share of low incomes above it, and social assistance at more than three times the national level — but almost nothing stands empty.
- no. 7,462 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 41 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Barrier scores
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Is Barrier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Barrier comes out at 26 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.
In 2025, 65 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.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Barrier has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,923 — 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 Barrier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Barrier comes out at 26 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 Barrier?
In Barrier the police recorded 65 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Barrier calculated?
Barrier scores 5.7 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 Barrier 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.
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