neighbourhood in Peel en Maas
Baarlo-centrum
2,285 residents · postal code 5991 · Part of Baarlo, Peel en Maas
Safe, but few children
For Baarlo-centrum the amenities pillar is missing, which means the overall score of 3.7 rests on four pillars instead of five. The income distribution and vacancy are missing too: with too few households, Statistics Netherlands does not publish those figures. What is left of wealth & income is the property value, below the national median, alongside a social assistance rate that is more or less at the middle.
At 9.0 the safety pillar is by far the strongest of the four. Violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism all stay below the national middle, violence most clearly. For a neighbourhood that forms the core of a village that is not a self-evident outcome.
The 3.2 for families fits the age structure: a third of residents are 65 or over and the share of children stays below the national middle. How far the schools are is not recorded for this neighbourhood, so that part of the figure cannot be checked.
- no. 10,948 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 48 of 52 in Peel en Maas
How Baarlo-centrum scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Baarlo-centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Baarlo-centrum comes out at 21 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, 58 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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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
Baarlo-centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+33%
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
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,598 — 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 Baarlo-centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Baarlo-centrum comes out at 21 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 Baarlo-centrum?
In Baarlo-centrum the police recorded 58 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Baarlo-centrum calculated?
Baarlo-centrum scores 3.7 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 Baarlo-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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Peel en Maas.
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