neighbourhood in Peel en Maas
Helden-centrum
2,555 residents · postal code 5988 · Part of Helden, Peel en Maas
Safe, but few children
Helden-centrum has no score for amenities, so its overall score of 3.9 rests on four pillars rather than five. That is not a formality: every distance to a shop, a doctor or a station is missing, so what is often the strongest point of a village centre does not count here at all.
What does count falls apart. The social assistance rate is roughly double what is usual nationally and property values stay below the median; together they push wealth & income down to 4.5. The income breakdown is missing too, because Statistics Netherlands does not publish it where there are too few households, so part of that picture stays invisible.
Against that weakness stands a 7.2 for safety. Theft is far less common here than in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and so is vandalism. Violence sits slightly above the median and is the only offence type that stands out.
- no. 10,635 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 46 of 52 in Peel en Maas
How Helden-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 Helden-centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Helden-centrum comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Helden-centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 48 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
Helden-centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,849 — 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 Helden-centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Helden-centrum comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Helden-centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Helden-centrum?
In Helden-centrum the police recorded 48 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Helden-centrum calculated?
Helden-centrum scores 3.9 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 Helden-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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Peel en Maas
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Peel en Maas.
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