neighbourhood in Helmond
Leonardus
2,395 residents · postal code 5701 · Part of Binnenstad, Helmond
Everything close by, little to spend
The social assistance rate in Leonardus is more than eleven times above the national median, the sharpest outlier in this neighbourhood's entire profile. With a property value at about half the national median and a thin top income group, the wealth & income pillar comes out at a 2.6.
The 9.3 for families stands apart from that and is real: four in ten households have children and the primary school is six hundred metres away. That is the combination the pillar is built on.
In the crime figures violence and vandalism are both more than three times the national level, while burglary stays below the median. So it is not the homes that are the target here.
- no. 11,076 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 32 of 42 in Helmond
How Leonardus scores
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Is Leonardus a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leonardus comes out at 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Leonardus 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, 179 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
Leonardus has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 14%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,028 — 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 Leonardus a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leonardus comes out at 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Leonardus 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 Leonardus?
In Leonardus the police recorded 179 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (56 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 Leonardus calculated?
Leonardus scores 3.6 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 Leonardus 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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