neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Blixembosch-West
1,995 residents · postal code 5629 · Part of Aanschot, Eindhoven
Well-off, and well out of town
Blixembosch-West ranks among the four hundred best-scoring neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, and that traces back to two things. All four measured offence types sit below the national middle, with vandalism at less than a fifth of it. And property values are well above the national median, with more high incomes than nationally and barely any social assistance.
The weakest pillar is amenities, at 5.6. Supermarket, GP and school are all within a kilometre, but the railway station is more than five away. In a pillar where station distance counts for a sixth, that drags the figure down.
The quiet & nature pillar lags what the surroundings suggest, at 7.0. Greenery sits almost exactly on the national median; it is the tree canopy and the low noise level that carry the score.
- no. 335 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Blixembosch-West scores
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Is Blixembosch-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Blixembosch-West comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Blixembosch-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 17 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
The age profile of Blixembosch-West looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,728 — 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 Blixembosch-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Blixembosch-West comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Blixembosch-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Blixembosch-West?
In Blixembosch-West the police recorded 17 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Blixembosch-West calculated?
Blixembosch-West scores 9.8 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 Blixembosch-West 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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