neighbourhood in Venray

Centrum

2,325 residents · postal code 5801 · Part of Centrum, Venray

Bottom 12% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Four in ten residents of Centrum in Venray are 65 or over, and four per cent of all residents are under fifteen. Such sharp skew is rare in the Netherlands. The 4.2 for families follows from it, because the primary school is nine hundred metres away and distance is therefore not the problem.

The 3.5 for safety comes almost entirely from theft, which here reaches more than four times the national middle, and from violence, which is well above it. Burglary is actually rare, at half the median.

On wealth & income most things point downward, but not all: the bottom income group sits exactly at the Dutch middle and therefore says nothing, while property value and the top income group stay clearly below it. What the neighbourhood does have is reach, with a 9.3 for amenities.

no. 11,530 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 28 of 32 in Venray

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 71 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Centrum 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

70.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

7.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

39.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 287 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

0.3 km

GP practice

1.1 km

Train station

3.3 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 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

€ 305,000

Welfare recipients

12.9 per 1,000

High incomes

11%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

41%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

24%

Built after 2000

34%

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

4,889 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

36%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,927

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.5 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

0.9 km

Households with children

10%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–154%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+41%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
58% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,889 — 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 Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 71 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: 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 Centrum?

In Centrum the police recorded 287 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (71 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 Centrum calculated?

Centrum scores 3.4 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 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.