neighbourhood in Helmond

't Hout-Centrum

3,680 residents · postal code 5706 · Part of 't Hout, Helmond

Bottom 34% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

The railway station seven hundred metres away, and everything else within half a kilometre: 't Hout-Centrum has the reach of a town centre and takes a 9.2 for amenities and an 8.9 for families on the back of it. The second leans heavily on the short school distance of four hundred metres.

The price shows in the quiet & nature pillar, which stalls at 3.3: little greenery around, a tree canopy below the national median, no open water and a noise level above it. The safety pillar is weak too, with property offences at more than one and a half times and vandalism at one and a half times the national median; burglary sits exactly on the median. Living here means trading green and silence for the convenience of a station around the corner.

no. 8,721 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 23 of 42 in Helmond

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Is 't Hout-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, 't Hout-Centrum comes out at 30 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

29.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

12.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 144 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.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

0.7 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.7 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

2.9 km

Motorway ramp

3.3 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

€ 323,000

Welfare recipients

21.7 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

57%

Social housing

33%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

83%

Built after 2000

16%

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

4,594 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

38%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,797

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.8 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

35%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.9 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of 't Hout-Centrum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+24%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,594 — 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 't Hout-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, 't Hout-Centrum comes out at 30 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 't Hout-Centrum?

In 't Hout-Centrum the police recorded 144 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 't Hout-Centrum calculated?

't Hout-Centrum scores 5.0 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 't Hout-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.