neighbourhood in Helmond

Centrum

3,345 residents · postal code 5701 · Part of Binnenstad, Helmond

Bottom 3% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Nowhere in the Netherlands are amenities closer to the door than in the centre of Helmond: a 10.0, with the supermarket, GP and restaurant three hundred metres away or less and the station around the corner. And nowhere in these figures is the contrast greater, because the overall score is a 2.7.

That comes down to safety, and it is extreme. More than a hundred offences per thousand residents are recorded here, against roughly a quarter of that nationally; violence is almost six times the median and property crime further still. All four types are above it. On top of that almost one in eleven homes stands vacant and property value stays far below the median — the picture of an inner city that kept its function and lost its liveability.

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no. 41 of 42 in Helmond

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 112 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

111.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

13.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.0 per 1,000

Property crime

53.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 565 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.0 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

0.4 km

Motorway ramp

2.3 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

€ 246,000

Welfare recipients

44.8 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

18%

Social housing

41%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

11%

Built after 2000

18%

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

6,707 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

22%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,129

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

1.1 km

Households with children

11%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum has strikingly few children under 15: 6%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
65% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,707 — 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 112 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 565 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (112 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 2.7 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.