neighbourhood in Tilburg
Ruiven
1,925 residents · postal code 5056 · Part of Berkel-Enschot, Tilburg
Everything for children close by, and little room
Ruiven arrives at a 9.0, and the striking thing about that score is how unevenly it is built up. Families and wealth stand high: the primary school is six hundred metres away, almost half of households have children, and property value is well above the national median with barely any social assistance or vacancy alongside it.
The amenities pillar sticks at 5.2 because the railway station is almost six kilometres away and the supermarket one and a half. Anyone living here without a car notices that every day. The safety pillar of 8.1 comes mainly from little violence and little vandalism — both well below the national middle — while burglary is slightly above. Quiet & nature stays at 4.8 through traffic noise that is more than six decibels above the median.
- no. 1,750 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 215 in Tilburg
How Ruiven scores
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Is Ruiven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ruiven comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 49 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
Ruiven has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,762 — 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 Ruiven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Ruiven comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Ruiven?
In Ruiven the police recorded 49 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Ruiven calculated?
Ruiven scores 9.0 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 Ruiven 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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