neighbourhood in Venray
Brabander
2,565 residents · postal code 5804 · Part of Brabander, Venray
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Brabander is laid out spaciously — the population density is a fraction of what is usual in an urban neighbourhood — and that costs accessibility. The GP and the primary school are both a good two kilometres away, and it is that school distance which keeps the families score at 5.8, while almost half of households here have children. Plenty of families, no school round the corner.
The 8.6 for wealth & income is broadly based: the property value is well above the median, more than a quarter of households fall in the highest income group, and the rate of social assistance is half the national middle. Every component points the same way.
With a 9.0 for safety and a noise level far below the national figure this is a markedly quiet place to live. Anyone living here does so with a car at the door, though.
- no. 1,910 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 32 in Venray
How Brabander scores
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Is Brabander a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brabander comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Brabander 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, 38 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
Brabander has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+12%
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
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
614 — far less 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 Brabander a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brabander comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Brabander 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 Brabander?
In Brabander the police recorded 38 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Brabander calculated?
Brabander scores 8.9 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 Brabander 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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