neighbourhood in Eindhoven

Bergen

2,800 residents · postal code 5611 · Part of Centrum, Eindhoven

Bottom 10% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Bergen is a city-centre neighbourhood and the crime figures show what that means. Theft here is an order of magnitude above the national middle and pulls the total up on its own. But the familiar reassurance that it stays limited to property does not hold: violence too sits well above the median, and so do burglary and vandalism. All four types point the same way, and that is where the 2.7 for safety comes from.

The 9.0 for amenities is the other side of the same coin. Restaurants, GP, supermarket and station are all within a few hundred metres to a few kilometres, and greenery in the immediate surroundings does not reach half of what an ordinary Dutch neighbourhood has. That explains the 2.6 for quiet & nature.

Vacancy stands out: it is almost three times the national rate. In a neighbourhood where two thirds of households are single-person and where households with children are scarce, this is a place of coming and going.

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no. 81 of 103 in Eindhoven

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Is Bergen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bergen comes out at 91 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bergen 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

91.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

60.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 479 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

3.1 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

3.7 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

€ 408,000

Welfare recipients

7.1 per 1,000

High incomes

29%

Low incomes

31%

Vacancy

11%

Owner-occupied

34%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

14%

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

8,148 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

25%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,575

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.8 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

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Who lives here

Bergen has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 46%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–2520%
NL median 11%
25–4546%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
68% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,148 — 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 Bergen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Bergen comes out at 91 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bergen 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 Bergen?

In Bergen the police recorded 479 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (91 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 Bergen calculated?

Bergen scores 3.2 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 Bergen 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.