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Bubble Crime

Registered crime in the Netherlands as a bubble map, per municipality, district and neighbourhood.

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Released
October 10, 2026
Available on
Android and Web
Category
Open data NL

Screenshots

  • The Bubble Crime board for the Netherlands: every municipality is a bubble, red where registered crime is rising and green where it is falling
  • The detail card of one municipality: registered crimes this month and a year earlier, the change, and a trend line over five years
  • The board after zooming in on Amsterdam, with its districts as bubbles
  • The list view for Amsterdam: every type of crime with its count and its change on the year before
  • The national board in the dark theme
  • Settings: colour palette, reduced motion, number of bubbles, drift speed and transparency

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What Bubble Crime is for

Bubble Crime puts the police's registered crime figures, published as open data by CBS, on a board full of bubbles. Every municipality is a bubble: the bigger it is, the more changed there, red is rising and green is falling. Tap a municipality and the board rebuilds from its districts; tap a district and you get the neighbourhoods. From the whole country to the street around the corner in two taps.

Dutch only, by design: the interface, the data and the Play listing are all in Dutch. No account, no profile. Free with a banner; a one-time purchase removes the ads.

Bubble Crime shows figures, not a verdict on how safe a neighbourhood is.

Use cases

  • Looking up your own area: Go from the whole country to a neighbourhood in two taps, or jump to your own municipality.
  • Comparing periods: Compare year on year, month on month or whole years, by percentage change, by count or per 1,000 inhabitants.
  • Checking one kind of crime: Thirty types, from burglary to bicycle theft, or all of them together.

What it does

  • Thirty types of crime, from burglary to bicycle theft, or all of them together
  • Compare year on year, month on month, or whole years
  • Bubble size by percentage change, by count, or per 1,000 inhabitants
  • Mijn locatie jumps to your own municipality; approximate location only, nothing stored
  • Honest about the numbers: registered crime is what was reported, and areas with too few cases stay off the board
  • Light and dark theme, a colour-blind palette, motion that can be switched off
  • Source: CBS open data (tables 47013NED and 47022NED), updated monthly