neighbourhood in Zaltbommel
Brakel
2,615 residents · postal code 5306 · Part of Brakel, Zaltbommel
Safe, but everything is a drive away
Brakel scores lowest on amenities with a 5.0, and not because the village is bare: supermarket, GP and primary school are all within walking range. It is the restaurant at a good three kilometres and the station at nearly ten that drag the pillar down. For the daily shopping run you notice nothing; for an evening out, everything.
The 8.4 for families rests on both legs at once: the school around the corner and almost four in ten households with children. That is rarer than it looks, because school and childcare distance make up nearly two thirds of that pillar. The 9.2 for safety has the same simplicity — burglary sits at a fraction of the national median and none of the offence types rises above it.
- no. 2,803 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 10 of 25 in Zaltbommel
How Brakel scores
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Is Brakel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brakel comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Brakel 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, 45 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
Brakel has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,887 — 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 Brakel a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brakel comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Brakel 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 Brakel?
In Brakel the police recorded 45 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Brakel calculated?
Brakel scores 8.4 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 Brakel 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Zaltbommel
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Zaltbommel.
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