neighbourhood in Venlo

Withuis

2,725 residents · postal code 5914 · Part of Venlo-Noord, Venlo

Bottom 10% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Everything you need day to day is within five hundred metres in Withuis, and that produces a 9.4 for amenities. Apart from that pillar, the neighbourhood scores below the national middle on every front.

The safety pillar has no soft spot to rescue the score: vandalism, violence, burglary and theft all four sit above the national median, and theft is more than two and a half times above it. Across more than two thousand seven hundred residents, those are not counts hanging on a handful of cases.

The wealth pillar points the same way, with one striking exception. Property value is around half the national median, high incomes are scarce and the social assistance rate climbs to many times the national figure — but there is hardly any vacancy. The homes are cheap and they are lived in. More than half of households are single-person.

no. 11,836 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 81 of 94 in Venlo

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Is Withuis a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Withuis comes out at 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Withuis is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

53.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

24.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 198 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.1 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 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

€ 231,000

Welfare recipients

58.7 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

48%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

45%

Social housing

46%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

40%

Built after 2000

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

6,628 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

38%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,153

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 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

23%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Withuis 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%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+23%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,628 — 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 Withuis a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Withuis comes out at 54 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Withuis 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 Withuis?

In Withuis the police recorded 198 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (54 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 Withuis calculated?

Withuis scores 3.2 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 Withuis 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.