neighbourhood in Tilburg

Westermarkt

1,645 residents · postal code 5042 · Part of Het Zand, Tilburg

Bottom 12% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Westermarkt has one of the highest amenities scores in the Netherlands, a 9.9, with supermarket and restaurant two hundred metres away and the station just over a kilometre. The same neighbourhood carries a 3.0 for safety, and the number of reported offences per thousand residents is almost four times the national middle.

The breakdown shows where that comes from. More than half of all records are property offences, a figure five times above the median. Burglary is below it — so this is emphatically not about homes. Violence, though, is almost three times the median, so the picture of nothing but disappearing possessions does not hold here. The 2.7 for wealth & income fits this part of the city: property value stays far below the national middle and more than half of households are in the lowest income group.

no. 11,610 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 153 of 215 in Tilburg

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Is Westermarkt 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

95.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

48.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

10.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 240 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

0.2 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

1.4 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

3.9 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

€ 258,000

Welfare recipients

66.9 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

56%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

30%

Social housing

46%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

49%

Built after 2000

13%

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

8,547 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

37%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,554

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Westermarkt has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 23%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2523%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+13%
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
56% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,547 — 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 Westermarkt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Westermarkt comes out at 95 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Westermarkt 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 Westermarkt?

In Westermarkt the police recorded 240 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (95 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 Westermarkt calculated?

Westermarkt scores 3.3 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 Westermarkt 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.