neighbourhood in Helmond
Stepekolk
4,000 residents · postal code 5708 · Part of Brandevoort, Helmond
Safe, but everything is a drive away
There are fewer than ten neighbourhoods in the Netherlands with a lower crime figure than Stepekolk. Violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are all four below the national median, burglary at a fraction of it — hence the 10.0 for safety.
Two scores lag behind and they sit close together: a 6.1 for amenities and a 6.2 for quiet & nature. The first traces back precisely: the supermarket and the GP are both about a kilometre away, and those two together carry more than forty per cent of that pillar. What is close by is the school — with almost six in ten households having children, that counts for a lot here. The 6.2 comes from the other direction: the noise level is well below the national median and there is more surface water than usual, but the tree canopy lags and the density is that of an urban district.
- no. 86 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 42 in Helmond
How Stepekolk scores
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Is Stepekolk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stepekolk comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stepekolk is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 45 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
Stepekolk has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 8%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
58% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,188 — 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 Stepekolk a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stepekolk comes out at 10 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stepekolk is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Stepekolk?
In Stepekolk the police recorded 45 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (10 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 Stepekolk calculated?
Stepekolk scores 10.0 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 Stepekolk 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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