Sport in Tilburg

How many residents of Tilburg play sport and get enough exercise each week: by age group, among schoolchildren, and how this has changed since 2016. You can see Tilburg alongside the rest of the Netherlands and alongside similar municipalities, as well as which sports fields and courts there are.

Sport every week

Tilburg 59%
GGD Hart voor Brabant 59%
Netherlands 58%

Gets enough exercise

Tilburg 47%
GGD Hart voor Brabant 47%
Netherlands 49%

By age

Sport every week

18–64, Tilburg 65%
18–64, Netherlands 63%
65+, Tilburg 39%
65+, Netherlands 42%

Gets enough exercise

18–64, Tilburg 51%
18–64, Netherlands 52%
65+, Tilburg 34%
65+, Netherlands 41%

Pupils

Tilburg 73%
Netherlands 76%

Since 2016

Alongside other municipalities

Comparable municipalities

Utrecht 71%
Leiden 68%
Groningen 67%
Haarlem 66%
Eindhoven 61%
Tilburg 59%

Pitches and courts

	Tilburg	Per 10.000 residents	Netherlands
Football pitches	112	4,9	7,3
Tennis courts	65	2,8	5,1
Padel courts	13	0,6	0,6
Hockey pitches	21	0,9	0,6
Basketball courts	29	1,3	1,2
Buitenfitness	9	0,4	0,6
Skate parks	14	0,6	0,4

Sources: CBS/RIVM/GGD's, Health Monitor for Adults and Older People 2024, adults; in 2016 from 19 years old. The line on a bar is the margin of error (95%); pupils: Youth Health Monitor 2023, grades 2 and 4, weekly sport at a club or gym; comparable = equally urban and roughly equal in size, CBS, Key Figures for Neighbourhoods and Districts; pitches and courts: © OpenStreetMap contributors, as they appear on the map.

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