neighbourhood in Eindhoven

TU-terrein

2,225 residents · postal code 5612 · Part of Centrum, Eindhoven

Bottom 9% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

More than nine in ten households on the TU-terrein consist of one person and households with children are all but absent. Incomes are low — more than half in the bottom group — but the social assistance rate is in fact below the national middle. Low incomes without benefits is a combination you rarely see together.

The offence rate is this neighbourhood's most striking figure: almost five times the national middle, and it sits almost entirely in theft, which runs eight times as high. Violence is only slightly above the middle and burglary below it. This is a place where things go missing, not a place that is dangerous after dark.

The 4.1 for families is therefore not a shortcoming but a description: the primary school is more than one and a half kilometres away and hardly any families live here. And the 5.5 for quiet & nature is pushed down by noise far above the median, despite a low built density.

no. 11,970 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 83 of 103 in Eindhoven

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Is TU-terrein 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

114.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

74.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 372 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

0.2 km

GP practice

1.7 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

2.3 km

Motorway ramp

3.0 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

€ 173,000

Welfare recipients

4.5 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

57%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

Social housing

34%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

34%

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

1,826 inw/km²

Noise level

61 dB

Green surroundings

44%

Trees nearby

15%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,916

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

1.7 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

TU-terrein has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 56%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–152%
NL median 14%
15–2556%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6510%
NL median 28%
65+1%
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
1.1 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
92% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
0% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,826 — less 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 TU-terrein a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, TU-terrein comes out at 114 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: TU-terrein 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 TU-terrein?

In TU-terrein the police recorded 372 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (114 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 TU-terrein calculated?

TU-terrein 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 TU-terrein 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.