neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Waterrijk
2,530 residents · postal code 5658 · Part of Meerhoven, Eindhoven
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Waterrijk is the neighbourhood where the families score looks too low for the people living there. Almost six in ten households have children and there are hardly any older residents, and still the pillar stays at 7.2. The primary school is more than one and a half kilometres away, and school distance counts for more there than the number of children.
That same distance pushes amenities down to 4.2: shop, doctor and restaurant are all kilometres off, and nothing in that pillar compensates.
Wealth & income is the mirror image. More than four in ten households are in the highest income group, more than double the national figure, property values are far above the median, and low incomes and social assistance stay below it. A 9.2 in which no component works against the neighbourhood, alongside a 9.5 for safety.
- no. 1,539 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Waterrijk scores
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Is Waterrijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterrijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waterrijk 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, 33 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
Waterrijk has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 3%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1525%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+3%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
57% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,281 — 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 Waterrijk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waterrijk comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Waterrijk 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 Waterrijk?
In Waterrijk the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Waterrijk calculated?
Waterrijk scores 9.1 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 Waterrijk 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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