neighbourhood in Tilburg
De Blaak Zuid-West
2,150 residents · postal code 5032 · Part of De Blaak, Tilburg
Well-off, and well out of town
The wealth & income pillar of De Blaak Zuid-West stands at 9.8, and that score rests on no single component. Property value sits more than a quarter above the national median, a third of households have a high income, the share in the lowest stays below it, no social assistance is recorded and there is virtually no vacancy.
Against that sits a 5.1 for amenities, and that is a matter of distance. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are all more than a kilometre away here — for the daily shopping you take the car or the bike.
The same applies to the families score of 5.8. The primary school is just over a kilometre away, and school distance is at almost a third the heaviest component of that pillar. That the neighbourhood also counts relatively many households with children does not outweigh it.
- no. 1,520 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 18 of 215 in Tilburg
How De Blaak Zuid-West scores
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Is De Blaak Zuid-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Blaak Zuid-West comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Blaak Zuid-West 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, 21 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
De Blaak Zuid-West has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+28%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,725 — 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 De Blaak Zuid-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Blaak Zuid-West comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: De Blaak Zuid-West 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 De Blaak Zuid-West?
In De Blaak Zuid-West the police recorded 21 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 De Blaak Zuid-West calculated?
De Blaak Zuid-West scores 9.1 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 De Blaak Zuid-West 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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