neighbourhood in Tilburg

Het Zand Noord-West

1,230 residents · postal code 5042 · Part of Het Zand, Tilburg

Bottom 7% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Anyone looking at the safety score in Het Zand Noord-West sees a 3.0 that comes almost entirely from one direction. Property offences here are more than twice the national median and make up the bulk of all recorded cases; violence, burglary and vandalism are above the median too, but not dramatically. What disappears here is possessions.

The second tension sits between the map and the wallet. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all within eight hundred metres, good for an 8.0 for amenities — while the wealth pillar sticks at 2.9 because of a property value far below the national middle and a social assistance rate many times above it. A quarter of residents are over sixty-five, and the share of children is below the national middle.

no. 12,260 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 177 of 215 in Tilburg

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Is Het Zand Noord-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

43.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

19.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 68 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.8 km

Hospital

1.1 km

Café

1.7 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

4.4 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

€ 257,000

Welfare recipients

65.0 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

52%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

36%

Social housing

58%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

42%

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

8,228 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

49%

Trees nearby

25%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,508

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.3 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

0.6 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Het Zand Noord-West has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+25%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,228 — 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 Het Zand Noord-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Zand Noord-West comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Zand Noord-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 Het Zand Noord-West?

In Het Zand Noord-West the police recorded 68 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (44 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 Het Zand Noord-West calculated?

Het Zand Noord-West scores 3.0 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 Het Zand Noord-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.