neighbourhood in Tilburg
Achthoeven
1,630 residents · postal code 5071 · Part of Udenhout, Tilburg
Everything for children close by, and little room
Achthoeven shows that a good safety score does not mean nothing happens. The number of reported offences here is far below the national median and violence, vandalism and property crime all stay under it — but burglary rises almost four times above. For residents that is the concrete point of attention: the door, not the street.
The second oddity sits with the families pillar. It stands at 9.1 in a neighbourhood where nearly three in ten residents are over sixty-five and the share of children is below the national middle. What carries that figure is the primary school three hundred metres away, since school distance weighs the most in that pillar. The station, by contrast, is more than five kilometres off, and that is where the amenities pillar runs aground.
- no. 1,351 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 16 of 215 in Tilburg
How Achthoeven scores
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Is Achthoeven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Achthoeven comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Achthoeven 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, 25 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
Achthoeven has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,588 — 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 Achthoeven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Achthoeven comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Achthoeven 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 Achthoeven?
In Achthoeven the police recorded 25 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Achthoeven calculated?
Achthoeven scores 9.2 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 Achthoeven 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 Tilburg
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Tilburg.
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