neighbourhood in Gemert-Bakel

Gemert-Centrum

4,455 residents · postal code 5421 · Part of Gemert-Centrum, Gemert-Bakel

Bottom 45% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Property offences in Gemert-Centrum run at more than one and a half times the national median and make up almost half of all recorded crime. That is the pattern of a village centre a lot of people pass through; violence and vandalism stay close to the national picture. The 3.9 for safety here is about what goes missing, not about what happens on the street at night.

Against that weakness stands a 9.0 for amenities. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within six hundred metres, and in that pillar this outweighs a railway station eleven kilometres away.

The age structure stands out: almost a third of residents are 65 or older. In a population like that the families pillar is not a children's score but a distance score, and the 7.0 duly comes from the school around the corner.

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no. 22 of 24 in Gemert-Bakel

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Is Gemert-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gemert-Centrum comes out at 35 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

35.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

15.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 226 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

0.6 km

Train station

11.6 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

0.6 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 386,000

Welfare recipients

11.2 per 1,000

High incomes

14%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

24%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

64%

Built after 2000

28%

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

2,853 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

45%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,329

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

0.6 km

Households with children

26%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Gemert-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+32%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,853 — 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 Gemert-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gemert-Centrum comes out at 35 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Gemert-Centrum?

In Gemert-Centrum the police recorded 226 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (35 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 Gemert-Centrum calculated?

Gemert-Centrum scores 5.8 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 Gemert-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.