neighbourhood in Valkenswaard
Geenhoven
3,560 residents · postal code 5552 · Part of Valkenswaard, Valkenswaard
Everything close by, little space
Geenhoven has daily life close at hand — GP, shop, school and restaurant all within six hundred metres — but the station is more than ten kilometres away, and both sit in the same pillar. Hence a 7.6 and no more.
The crime figures have an unusual shape. Total reported offences are below the national median, and theft is far below it. Yet the safety pillar stops at 4.8, and that is down to violence, burglary and vandalism, all three above — precisely the components that weigh heaviest here.
On wealth & income the social assistance rate is the sharpest outlier: a multiple of the Dutch middle, while property value and income distribution stay closer to it. Almost a quarter of the homes date from after 2000.
- no. 9,053 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 20 in Valkenswaard
How Geenhoven scores
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Is Geenhoven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Geenhoven comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 99 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
Geenhoven has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,148 — 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 Geenhoven a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Geenhoven comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Geenhoven?
In Geenhoven the police recorded 99 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Geenhoven calculated?
Geenhoven scores 4.8 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 Geenhoven 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 Valkenswaard
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Valkenswaard.
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