neighbourhood in Horst aan de Maas
Horst-Centrum
1,830 residents · postal code 5961 · Part of Horst, Horst aan de Maas
Everything close by, safety lags
The crime figure for Horst-Centrum is almost three times the national middle, and all four recorded types contribute to it: property crime more than three times the median, vandalism almost four times, burglary four times and violence nearly twice. That makes the 2.6 for safety the clearest figure on this page.
The 9.5 for amenities shows what stands against it: supermarket, restaurant, GP and school are all within a kilometre.
Who lives here is a story of its own. More than four in ten residents are 65 or older, almost six in ten households consist of one person and children are few. That population profile comes with a wealth score that stalls: property values are far below the median and vacancy almost twice above it.
- no. 12,374 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 43 of 45 in Horst aan de Maas
How Horst-Centrum scores
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Is Horst-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Horst-Centrum comes out at 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Horst-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.
In 2025, 192 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
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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
Horst-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 43%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–256%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+43%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
57% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,769 — 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 Horst-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Horst-Centrum comes out at 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Horst-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 Horst-Centrum?
In Horst-Centrum the police recorded 192 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (66 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 Horst-Centrum calculated?
Horst-Centrum scores 2.9 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 Horst-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.
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