neighbourhood in Eindhoven

Kerstroosplein

1,880 residents · postal code 5644 · Part of Kortonjo, Eindhoven

Bottom 12% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Kerstroosplein has a problem that fits into a single figure: recorded violence here is more than twice the national median. Violence carries the heaviest weight of any offence type within the safety pillar, and together with vandalism above the middle that brings the pillar to 3.1.

The wealth components all point the same way. The social assistance rate is almost six times the Dutch middle, nearly half of households have a low income, and property values stay well below the median. Not one component here softens the picture.

And yet families score 8.7. That figure comes from the primary school four hundred metres away, not from the number of children — that sits below rather than above the national picture. Proximity and prospects are two different things here.

no. 11,580 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 75 of 103 in Eindhoven

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Is Kerstroosplein a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

49.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

11.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 138 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

0.4 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

3.9 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

4.1 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 333,000

Welfare recipients

47.9 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

47%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

34%

Social housing

51%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

86%

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

9,003 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,753

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

0.4 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kerstroosplein has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2516%
NL median 11%
25–4534%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+11%
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
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,003 — 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 Kerstroosplein a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kerstroosplein comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kerstroosplein 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 Kerstroosplein?

In Kerstroosplein the police recorded 138 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 Kerstroosplein calculated?

Kerstroosplein scores 3.4 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 Kerstroosplein 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.