neighbourhood in Meierijstad

Veghel Centrum

3,240 residents · postal code 5461 · Part of Veghel, Meierijstad

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Veghel Centrum is among the lowest-scoring neighbourhoods in the country and the picture is strikingly consistent: four of the five pillars stay below the middle and only amenities rises far above it, with supermarket, GP and restaurant all within half a kilometre.

That the amenities pillar reaches 8.4 while the nearest station is almost eighteen kilometres away deserves explaining: that distance counts for only a small share, and the daily amenities are so close that they make up for the rest.

Recorded offences run at double the national median, mainly from property crime. But violence and burglary are above the middle as well, so it is not purely a matter of things going missing. The people living here are older than average too: nearly six in ten households are single-person and the share of children lags far behind the national picture.

no. 12,678 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 89 of 90 in Meierijstad

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Is Veghel Centrum 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

50.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.2 per 1,000

Property crime

24.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 242 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

17.9 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

9.2 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 326,000

Welfare recipients

27.8 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

43%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

40%

Social housing

30%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

24%

Built after 2000

32%

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

5,168 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

36%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,054

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.3 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

0.8 km

Households with children

14%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Veghel Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 37%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+37%
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
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,168 — 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 Veghel Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Veghel Centrum comes out at 50 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Veghel 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 Veghel Centrum?

In Veghel Centrum the police recorded 242 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (50 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 Veghel Centrum calculated?

Veghel Centrum scores 2.7 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 Veghel 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.