neighbourhood in Valkenswaard
Turfberg-Noord
2,870 residents · postal code 5553 · Part of Valkenswaard, Valkenswaard
Good for children, with a safety question
Turfberg-Noord's tree canopy is more than three times the Dutch middle value and the greenery within three hundred metres well above it. That produces an 8.0 for quiet and nature, the neighbourhood's strongest figure.
The 4.5 for safety is the most instructive outcome. The total number of reported offences sits almost exactly on the national middle, but violence and burglary are both above it — and those two together determine nearly sixty per cent of the pillar. An average total can thus produce a below-average score.
Amenities get no further than 5.2. The primary school is four hundred metres away, which explains the 8.3 for families, but the GP is one and a half kilometres away and the station almost ten. Those are two different worlds within the same streets: everything a child needs around the corner, and the car for the rest.
- no. 6,886 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 13 of 20 in Valkenswaard
How Turfberg-Noord scores
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Is Turfberg-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Turfberg-Noord comes out at 24 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, 81 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
The age profile of Turfberg-Noord looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,703 — 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 Turfberg-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Turfberg-Noord comes out at 24 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 Turfberg-Noord?
In Turfberg-Noord the police recorded 81 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Turfberg-Noord calculated?
Turfberg-Noord scores 6.1 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 Turfberg-Noord 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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