neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Doornakkers-West
3,480 residents · postal code 5642 · Part of Doornakkers, Eindhoven
Everything close by, little space
Doornakkers-West is among the thousand lowest-scoring neighbourhoods in the country, and that is not down to one pillar. Safety, wealth & income and quiet & nature are all three far below the national middle, and only amenities keep the total at 3.1.
The income picture is the starkest. For every twenty-three residents there is roughly one social assistance benefit here — more than five times the national figure — the property value stays far below the middle, the share of households in the lowest income group is well above the national one and the highest group is thinner than average. Only vacancy is below the median.
Crime here is elevated across the board: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are all four above the national middle, violence at more than double. That is a different profile from a centre where only things go missing. What weighs on the quiet & nature pillar is measurable: greenery within three hundred metres does not even reach sixty per cent of the national level, and noise is six decibels above it.
- no. 12,108 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 90 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Doornakkers-West scores
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Is Doornakkers-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Doornakkers-West comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 165 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
Doornakkers-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,937 — 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 Doornakkers-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Doornakkers-West comes out at 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Doornakkers-West?
In Doornakkers-West the police recorded 165 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (33 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 Doornakkers-West calculated?
Doornakkers-West 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 Doornakkers-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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