neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Blaarthem
2,505 residents · postal code 5654 · Part of Oud-Gestel, Eindhoven
Everything close by, little space
Only amenities score high in Blaarthem; the other four pillars stay below the national middle. The 2.8 for quiet & nature is the lowest: greenery in the immediate surroundings stays well below the median, noise is above it and almost seven thousand people live per square kilometre.
The crime picture turns on theft, more than twice the national level, with violence above it too; together that produces a 3.4 for safety. Wealth & income comes out at 3.3, with a social assistance rate eight times the national middle as the starkest number. More than half of all households here consist of one person, which explains why the share of households with children is low and why the families pillar stops at 6.3 despite a school around the corner.
- no. 12,054 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 88 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Blaarthem scores
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Is Blaarthem a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Blaarthem comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Blaarthem 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.
In 2025, 145 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
Blaarthem has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,930 — 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 Blaarthem a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Blaarthem comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Blaarthem 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 Blaarthem?
In Blaarthem the police recorded 145 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 Blaarthem calculated?
Blaarthem scores 3.1 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 Blaarthem 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Eindhoven.
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