neighbourhood in Eindhoven

Irisbuurt

2,880 residents · postal code 5611 · Part of Oud-Stratum, Eindhoven

Bottom 30% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Irisbuurt scores 3.1 for quiet and nature, and that figure has two causes reinforcing each other: greenery within three hundred metres reaches half the Dutch middle value and traffic noise sits more than seven decibels above it. The latter is a large gap on a scale where a few decibels are already audible.

On safety, at 4.1, it comes down to what goes missing and what gets forced open. Property offences run at almost double the national middle and burglaries at three times that level, while violence stays below it. The picture of a busy city neighbourhood where things disappear, not of a place where the street is the problem.

Wealth and income rises above the middle at 6.4, but not across the whole line. The top income group here is more than one and a half times as broad as nationally, while property value sits almost exactly on the Dutch level.

no. 9,234 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 55 of 103 in Eindhoven

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Is Irisbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Irisbuurt comes out at 36 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.

Total crime

35.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.8 per 1,000

Property crime

17.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 157 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

2.3 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

2.5 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

€ 417,000

Welfare recipients

10.4 per 1,000

High incomes

30%

Low incomes

30%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

45%

Social housing

18%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

50%

Built after 2000

25%

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

5,482 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

26%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,643

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

0.8 km

Households with children

20%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Irisbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 44%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4544%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+10%
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
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,482 — 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 Irisbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Irisbuurt comes out at 36 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 Irisbuurt?

In Irisbuurt the police recorded 157 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 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 Irisbuurt calculated?

Irisbuurt scores 4.7 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 Irisbuurt 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.