neighbourhood in Waalwijk

Centrum

4,780 residents · postal code 5141 · Part of Waalwijk, Waalwijk

Bottom 10% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

A third of residents are 65 or older and not even a tenth are under fifteen: the centre of Waalwijk has aged, and that explains why the families pillar stalls at 6.3 while the primary school is round the corner. For daily errands it is a comfortable spot — supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within a kilometre, and the railway station at just over sixteen kilometres barely dents that 8.9 for amenities.

The 2.8 for quiet & nature does not come from crowding but from surroundings: there is little greenery within three hundred metres, no open water to speak of, and the noise level is above the national median. On crime, all four types are above the median, violence and vandalism leading. For a centre of nearly five thousand residents those are not incidental reports.

no. 11,813 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 16 of 20 in Waalwijk

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Is Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Centrum comes out at 47 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

47.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

20.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 347 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

0.7 km

Train station

16.1 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.0 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

€ 347,000

Welfare recipients

16.7 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

47%

Social housing

27%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

37%

Built after 2000

20%

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

4,529 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,255

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.1 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

18%

Childcare

0.5 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: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+33%
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
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,529 — 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 47 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 347 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 3.2 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 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.