neighbourhood in Eindhoven

Bennekel-Oost

3,315 residents · postal code 5654 · Part of Oud-Gestel, Eindhoven

Bottom 38% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Bennekel-Oost carries a safety score of 4.4 that rests almost entirely on one type of offence. Theft is well over twice the national median here and accounts for nearly half of all reports; burglary is below it and vandalism falls exactly on the national middle. Violence is above it, so the picture is not purely one of disappearing possessions.

The amenities pillar comes out at 9.0: supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within half a kilometre, only the railway station is four kilometres out.

What depresses the overall figure is the wealth & income pillar at 3.5. The social assistance rate is almost six times the national middle and the top income group is thin. For someone moving here that mainly means cheap housing in a place where nothing is far away.

no. 8,211 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 45 of 103 in Eindhoven

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Is Bennekel-Oost a safe 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

42.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

19.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 191 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

0.4 km

Train station

4.0 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

3.2 km

Motorway ramp

2.4 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

€ 324,000

Welfare recipients

45.2 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

39%

Social housing

50%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

63%

Built after 2000

16%

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

5,866 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

53%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,288

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

22%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Bennekel-Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 38%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4538%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,866 — 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 Bennekel-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bennekel-Oost comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bennekel-Oost 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 Bennekel-Oost?

In Bennekel-Oost the police recorded 191 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Bennekel-Oost calculated?

Bennekel-Oost scores 5.3 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 Bennekel-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.