neighbourhood in Venray
Brukske 2
2,275 residents · postal code 5802 · Part of Brukske, Venray
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Brukske 2 reaches 7.6 for families and 3.2 for wealth & income, and those two are about the same households. Four in ten have children and the primary school is seven hundred metres away; at the same time the social assistance rate stands at more than seven times the national middle and almost half of households are in the lowest income group.
The safety pillar comes out at 3.2 with all four types of offence above the national median. Property crime weighs heaviest in the total figure, but violence is the item that works through most within the pillar, and here it is at double the middle.
For amenities the picture is mixed: the station is less than two kilometres away, but the nearest restaurant is two kilometres off and the GP well outside the neighbourhood. That produces a 6.5.
- no. 12,241 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 32 of 32 in Venray
How Brukske 2 scores
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Is Brukske 2 a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brukske 2 comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Brukske 2 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.
In 2025, 114 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
Brukske 2 has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 14%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,458 — 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 Brukske 2 a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brukske 2 comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Brukske 2 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 Brukske 2?
In Brukske 2 the police recorded 114 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Brukske 2 calculated?
Brukske 2 scores 3.0 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 Brukske 2 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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