district in Geldrop-Mierlo
Mierlo
Mierlo has 5 neighbourhoods with 11,355 residents in total.
Mierlo is a Brabant village in the municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo, split into five neighbourhoods with over 11,300 residents. Safety (7.1) and prosperity (6.6) stand strong, with the overall (6.7) not far behind. Quiet and nature is the most modest at 6.5. The scores sit evenly at or above the middle. A quiet, well-kept village with no weak spots to speak of, and families do well here too at 6.7.
no. 1 of the 2 districts of Geldrop-Mierlo
Short answer: Mierlo scores 7.0 as a district of Geldrop-Mierlo, no. 1 of the 2 districts of Geldrop-Mierlo. Its strongest neighbourhood is Luchen (10.0), the worst Mierlo-Dorp (3.0). The district has 5 neighbourhoods with 11,355 residents in total.
Key figures for Mierlo
- residents
- 11,355
- neighbourhoods
- 5
- km² of land
- 17.9
How Mierlo 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.
In 2025, 350 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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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 Mierlo looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,544 — around the 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 Mierlo, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Mierlo
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Mierlo.
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Neighbourhoods in Mierlo
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