neighbourhood in Venlo

Blerick-Centrum

3,640 residents · postal code 5921 · Part of Blerick-Midden, Venlo

Bottom 27% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Blerick-Centrum has the reach of a genuine centre — a 9.8 for amenities, everything within half a kilometre and the station just over one — and pays for it on the safety pillar. Property offences run more than two and a half times the national rate and make up half of all reported offences; violence and vandalism deviate less.

The population is markedly old: more than a third of residents are 65 or over and the share of under-fifteens is small. Even so, families still lands on a 6.9, which shows how far that pillar runs on distances rather than on who lives there. Wealth & income lags at 3.6, with property values well below the national median and vacancy sitting exactly on it.

no. 9,636 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 53 of 94 in Venlo

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Is Blerick-Centrum 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

46.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

23.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 235 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 300,000

Welfare recipients

16.5 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

58%

Social housing

26%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

56%

Built after 2000

18%

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

5,243 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

Water share

11%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,545

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.4 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

0.5 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Blerick-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+35%
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
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,243 — 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 Blerick-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Blerick-Centrum comes out at 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Blerick-Centrum 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 Blerick-Centrum?

In Blerick-Centrum the police recorded 235 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (46 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 Blerick-Centrum calculated?

Blerick-Centrum scores 4.5 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 Blerick-Centrum 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.