neighbourhood in Geldrop-Mierlo

Centrum

2,845 residents · postal code 5664 · Part of Geldrop, Geldrop-Mierlo

Bottom 18% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Property offences are recorded in the Centrum of Geldrop more than three times as often as nationally. That is the figure pushing the safety pillar down to a 2.8, and it is the classic pattern of a shopping area where far more people are present by day than live there. But it does not stop at belongings: violence too runs well above the median here — the heaviest component of this pillar.

Set against it is the 9.5 for amenities, and the two figures share a cause. Everything that makes a centre attractive — shops, GP, cafés and restaurants within a few hundred metres — also draws in what goes wrong. The families score of 4.0 belongs to a population of which a third is 65 or over and where almost half of households consist of one person; the primary school, moreover, is exactly a kilometre away. Whoever lives here lives in the amenities of Geldrop, not on their edge.

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum 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.

Total crime

59.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.5 per 1,000

Property crime

32.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 274 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.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

2.0 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

0.8 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.6 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

€ 391,000

Welfare recipients

17.6 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

40%

Built after 2000

40%

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

3,215 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,170

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.8 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

1.0 km

Households with children

19%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

2.1 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+33%
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
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,215 — 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 Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum 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 Centrum?

In Centrum the police recorded 274 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (59 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 Centrum calculated?

Centrum scores 3.8 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 Centrum 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.