neighbourhood in Venlo
Hagerbroek
2,525 residents · postal code 5912 · Part of Venlo-Zuid, Venlo
Everything for children close by, and little room
Hagerbroek scores 9.7 for families and 3.6 for quiet & nature, and that is the same set of streets. The primary school is around the corner and half of all households have children; at the same time more than five thousand people live per square kilometre, noise levels are above the national median and greenery in the immediate surroundings lags behind. Anyone house-hunting here is choosing between those two.
The crime picture is strikingly calm: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism all four stay below the national median. For a neighbourhood at this density that is not a given. The 6.8 for wealth & income is the mixed figure of the set: the property value is below the national middle, but the share of higher incomes is slightly above it and social assistance is claimed half as often here as nationally.
- no. 1,214 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 94 in Venlo
How Hagerbroek scores
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Is Hagerbroek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hagerbroek comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 56 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
Hagerbroek has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 13%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,442 — 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 Hagerbroek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hagerbroek comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Hagerbroek?
In Hagerbroek the police recorded 56 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Hagerbroek calculated?
Hagerbroek scores 9.3 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 Hagerbroek 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.
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