neighbourhood in Helmond

Beisterveld

2,455 residents · postal code 5701 · Part of Helmond-Oost, Helmond

Bottom 8% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Beisterveld has one strong figure and otherwise only weak ones. Amenities stands at a 9.5, because supermarket, GP, primary school and restaurant are all half a kilometre away or less.

Beneath that lies a neighbourhood where each of the four types of recorded offence comes out above the national median, violence foremost at almost three times that level. That points not to theft as the main component but to something broader. The wealth & income pillar arrives at a 2.6, with a property value well below the Dutch average, a social assistance rate many times above it and more than half of households in the lowest income bracket. What keeps the neighbourhood upright on families is the short distance to the primary school.

no. 12,059 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 35 of 42 in Helmond

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Is Beisterveld 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

47.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

15.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 155 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

0.5 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.9 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 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

€ 226,000

Welfare recipients

48.9 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

52%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

26%

Social housing

69%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

56%

Built after 2000

15%

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

5,369 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

29%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,773

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.1 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

0.4 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Beisterveld has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,369 — 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 Beisterveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Beisterveld comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Beisterveld 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 Beisterveld?

In Beisterveld the police recorded 155 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Beisterveld calculated?

Beisterveld 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 Beisterveld 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.