neighbourhood in Tilburg

Heikant Zuid-West

1,630 residents · postal code 5011 · Part of Heikant, Tilburg

Bottom 19% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

The amenities pillar in Heikant Zuid-West stands at 9.2 — supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within seven hundred metres. The primary school is not: it is a kilometre away, and because school distance determines almost a third of the families pillar, that one sticks at 7.4 despite the large share of households with children.

The heaviest figure is the 2.8 for wealth & income, and all four components point the same way: a property value well below the national median, more than six in ten households in the lowest income group, few high incomes and a social assistance rate running into the hundred per thousand residents. The number of reported offences is well above the national middle, with violence as the largest deviation; burglary here sits exactly on the median.

no. 10,621 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 138 of 215 in Tilburg

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Is Heikant Zuid-West 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

41.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

10.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 86 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

4.1 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

2.7 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.5 km

Motorway ramp

2.9 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

€ 245,000

Welfare recipients

104.3 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

63%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

22%

Social housing

75%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

44%

Built after 2000

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

7,725 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

22%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,085

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.4 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

1.0 km

Households with children

37%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.9 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Heikant Zuid-West has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,725 — 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 Heikant Zuid-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heikant Zuid-West comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Heikant Zuid-West 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 Heikant Zuid-West?

In Heikant Zuid-West the police recorded 86 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Heikant Zuid-West calculated?

Heikant Zuid-West 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 Heikant 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.