neighbourhood in Helmond

Vossenberg

3,285 residents · postal code 5701 · Part of Binnenstad, Helmond

Bottom 22% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Vossenberg sits in the middle of Helmond's inner city and that shows in two figures that mirror each other: 9.7 for amenities and 2.6 for quiet & nature. Everything is within six hundred metres, and greenery in the surrounding area covers about a fifth against well over half nationally. The tree canopy also stays below the middle and the noise level is above it.

On safety it is theft that carries the score: it is at more than one and a half times the national median and accounts for about four in ten reports. Violence is clearly above it too, so this is not a place where only possessions disappear. Burglary, by contrast, is far below the middle.

The wealth & income pillar comes out at 3.4, with a social assistance rate almost five times the national one and a property value well below the median.

no. 10,247 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 28 of 42 in Helmond

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Is Vossenberg 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

39.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

14.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 176 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.7 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.1 km

Motorway ramp

2.4 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

€ 269,000

Welfare recipients

36.5 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

43%

Social housing

44%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

50%

Built after 2000

40%

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

7,049 inw/km²

Noise level

56 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

3,357

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

0.6 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vossenberg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+12%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,049 — 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 Vossenberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vossenberg comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vossenberg 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 Vossenberg?

In Vossenberg the police recorded 176 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Vossenberg calculated?

Vossenberg scores 4.1 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 Vossenberg 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.