district in Best
Centrum
Centrum has 19 neighbourhoods with 31,215 residents in total.
Best is a growing commuter town between Eindhoven and Boxtel, nineteen neighbourhoods and just over 31,000 residents around Naastenbest and Heivelden. Amenities score 7.5 and wealth and income 6.6, figures that describe a comfortable family town; for families it even reaches 8.0. Quiet and nature are the weakest element at 4.7. The overall comes to a pleasant 7.5: an orderly, prosperous place with the city close by.
Short answer: Centrum scores 7.5 as a district of Best. Its strongest neighbourhood is Speelheide (9.3), the worst 't Zand (3.3). The district has 19 neighbourhoods with 31,215 residents in total.
Key figures for Centrum
- residents
- 31,215
- neighbourhoods
- 19
- km² of land
- 33.9
How Centrum scores
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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
The age profile of Centrum looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,193 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Centrum, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Centrum
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Centrum.
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Neighbourhoods in Centrum
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