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The districts of Gemert-Bakel

Gemert-Bakel has 31,530 residents (2026), spread across 9 districts and 24 neighbourhoods.

Top 36% of the Netherlands

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Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Gemert-Bakel comes out at 7.4 as a municipality — better than 64% of Dutch neighbourhoods. Families lift that grade with 7.6; wealth and income hold it back at 5.9. The highest neighbourhood grades sit in Doonheide (9.6), the lowest in Elsendorp (4.7). That is 4.9 points of difference inside one municipality.

Key figures for Gemert-Bakel

residents
31,530
districts
9
neighbourhoods
24
km² of land
122

How Gemert-Bakel scores

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The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
Total crime
22.1 per 1,000
Violent crime
2.1 per 1,000
Burglaries
0.6 per 1,000
Property crime
8.2 per 1,000
Vandalism
1.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 902 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Supermarket
1.7 km
GP practice
1.5 km
Train station
10.9 km
Restaurant
0.9 km
Hospital
3.4 km
Café
1.0 km
Library
2.0 km
Motorway ramp
1.4 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
€ 437,353
Welfare recipients
13.0 per 1,000
High incomes
16%
Low incomes
40%
Vacancy
3%
Owner-occupied
70%
Social housing
20%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes
86%
Built after 2000
25%

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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
2,619 inw/km²
Noise level
49 dB
Green surroundings
50%
Trees nearby
13%
Water share
0%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²
793
Fine particles (PM2.5)
8.6 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.

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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
0.7 km
Households with children
37%
Childcare
0.7 km
Secondary school
3.2 km
Residents under 15
16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Gemert-Bakel looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

  • 0–1516%

    NL median 14%

  • 15–2511%

    NL median 11%

  • 25–4524%

    NL median 22%

  • 45–6527%

    NL median 28%

  • 65+22%

    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

    2.3 — around the average

    NL median 2.3

  • Single-person households

    31% — around the average

    NL median 31%

  • Households with children

    36% — around the average

    NL median 35%

  • Residents per km²

    2,619 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Gemert-Bakel, weighted by population.

Weakest neighbourhoods

The worst and the safest districts of Gemert-Bakel

The worst districts of Gemert-Bakel are in one ranking, the safest in the other. Both are built on registered crimes per 1,000 people present, not on reputation.

Other rankings

The 9 districts of Gemert-Bakel with a grade

Sorted by total grade

  1. 1Bakel8.3
  2. 2Gemert-Noord7.8
  3. 3De Mortel7.7
  4. 4Milheeze7.5
  5. 5Gemert-Oost7.3
  6. 6Handel7.3
  7. 7De Rips6.9
  8. 8Gemert-Centrum6.0
  9. 9Elsendorp5.3