neighbourhood in Meierijstad
Hoevenbraak
2,030 residents · postal code 5482 · Part of Schijndel, Meierijstad
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Hoevenbraak scores an 8.8 for families and a 3.5 for wealth & income, and those two figures are about the same households. The primary school is four hundred metres away and a third of households have children; at the same time more than half belong to the lowest income group and the social assistance rate is four times the national one.
The crime picture is calm but for one point: burglary is almost three times as common as the national average, while violence, theft and vandalism all stay below it. That is a targeted vulnerability, not a general problem. The 3.6 for quiet & nature comes from little greenery nearby and the absence of open water, not from noise — that sits exactly at the national median.
- no. 9,044 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 74 of 90 in Meierijstad
How Hoevenbraak scores
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Is Hoevenbraak a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoevenbraak comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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.
In 2025, 52 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
The age profile of Hoevenbraak looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
38% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,905 — 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 Hoevenbraak a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hoevenbraak comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Hoevenbraak?
In Hoevenbraak the police recorded 52 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Hoevenbraak calculated?
Hoevenbraak scores 4.8 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 Hoevenbraak 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Meierijstad.
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