neighbourhood in Eindhoven
Witte Dame
2,250 residents · postal code 5611 · Part of Centrum, Eindhoven
Everything close by, little space
Witte Dame counts almost seven times as many reported offences per thousand residents as the average Dutch neighbourhood, and it involves every category at once: property crime at more than six times the median, vandalism at nearly ten times, violence at almost eight. Only burglary sits exactly on the national middle. That is not the picture of vanishing bikes but of a centre where a great deal happens after dark, and it produces a 2.8 for safety.
That centre is also the strength: a restaurant a hundred metres away, a supermarket at three hundred, the station within a kilometre and a half, together a 9.5. Not one home is a single-family house and almost six in ten households consist of one person.
The 2.5 for quiet & nature is roughly the floor of the scale. Within three hundred metres under a seventh of the surface is green, there is no water, and noise lies well above the median. On the wealth & income figure of 5.7 one thing jars: one in ten addresses is vacant, more than double the national rate.
- no. 12,470 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 97 of 103 in Eindhoven
How Witte Dame scores
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Is Witte Dame a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Witte Dame comes out at 176 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Witte Dame is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 743 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
Witte Dame has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 60%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–156%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4560%
NL median 22%
- 45–6514%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
9% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,248 — 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 Witte Dame a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Witte Dame comes out at 176 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Witte Dame 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 Witte Dame?
In Witte Dame the police recorded 743 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (176 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 Witte Dame calculated?
Witte Dame scores 2.8 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 Witte Dame 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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