neighbourhood in Land van Cuijk
Boxmeer Centrum
2,030 residents · postal code 5831 · Part of Boxmeer, Land van Cuijk
Everything close by, safety lags
Almost four in ten residents of Boxmeer Centrum are 65 or older and barely one in twelve is under fifteen. That is a strongly ageing population, and it explains the 5.4 for families despite a primary school six hundred metres away — the share of children weighs heavily enough for that.
The 9.6 for amenities is the other pole: supermarket, doctor and restaurant are around the corner and the station is just over a kilometre away. There is a price attached, and it shows in the safety score. All four types of offence are above the national median and theft is at more than twice it — a pattern more common in a centre with many amenities than in a residential neighbourhood on the edge.
- no. 9,250 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 77 of 92 in Land van Cuijk
How Boxmeer Centrum scores
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Is Boxmeer Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boxmeer Centrum comes out at 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Boxmeer 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, 134 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
Boxmeer Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 38%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+38%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,646 — 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 Boxmeer Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Boxmeer Centrum comes out at 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Boxmeer 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 Boxmeer Centrum?
In Boxmeer Centrum the police recorded 134 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (43 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 Boxmeer Centrum calculated?
Boxmeer Centrum scores 4.7 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 Boxmeer 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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