**Abstract** In this project we examine whether homicide ‘clusters together’ with other adverse health outcomes in the Netherlands, focusing on child mortality, suicide, sexual risk behaviour, and substance abuse. We expected to observe moderate-to-strong correlations between homicide and child mortality, suicide, sexual risk behaviour, and substance abuse (**hypothesis 1**). Further, we expected that these correlations would be reduced in size when social disorganisation is controlled for (**hypothesis 2**). Results showed only modest correlations between homicide and the other adverse health outcomes. That is, there was only limited evidence of clustering between homicide and other adverse health outcomes in the Netherlands. The patterns of clustering that did occur, suggested that social disorganisation in the local area promotes risk-taking behaviours in the population, which ultimately increases such outcomes as homicide, abuse of illegal drugs and births to adolescent parents.