neighbourhood in Valkenswaard
Turfberg-Zuid
2,100 residents · postal code 5555 · Part of Valkenswaard, Valkenswaard
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Turfberg-Zuid has an 8.7 for safety, but one category of offence does not fit that picture: burglary runs at more than twice the national median. Violence and vandalism, by contrast, come out at a fraction of it. For the score that hardly matters, since burglary counts for less than violence — for the lock on the front door it does.
Wealth & income is the most mixed of all five pillars. The property value is above the median, but the share of high incomes sits exactly on it, that of low incomes barely above, and the social assistance rate at nearly double the national median. So the 5.8 is partly earned and partly held back.
Three in ten residents are over sixty-five; the station is nearly ten kilometres away, everything for daily life within one.
- no. 2,864 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 20 in Valkenswaard
How Turfberg-Zuid scores
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Is Turfberg-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Turfberg-Zuid comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Turfberg-Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 34 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
Turfberg-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,500 — around the 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-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Turfberg-Zuid comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Turfberg-Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Turfberg-Zuid?
In Turfberg-Zuid the police recorded 34 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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-Zuid calculated?
Turfberg-Zuid scores 8.4 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-Zuid 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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