neighbourhood in Brunssum

Haansberg

690 residents · postal code 6443 · Part of Brunssum-Centrum, Brunssum

Bottom 22% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Twenty-eight per cent vacancy is the figure you have to get past in Haansberg, more than seven times the national middle, in a neighbourhood where almost nine in ten homes are owner-occupied. It is the only component of the wealth pillar so far out of step: there is no social assistance, the income distribution sits close to the national picture and only property value stays below the median.

The safety score of 3.4 comes mainly from property offences, which are one and a half times the national middle, with violence and vandalism above it too. With some seven hundred residents, a few dozen reports determine that figure, so the picture is coarser than the decimal suggests. Supermarket and restaurant are within walking distance; GP and school are not.

no. 10,330 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 23 of 38 in Brunssum

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Is Haansberg a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

38.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

13.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 39 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

1.4 km

Train station

5.7 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 239,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

28%

Owner-occupied

86%

Social housing

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

91%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

2,848 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

52%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,827

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.7 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.0 km

Households with children

37%

Childcare

1.1 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Haansberg looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6534%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,848 — 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.

Frequently asked questions

Is Haansberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Haansberg comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Haansberg is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Haansberg?

In Haansberg the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.

How is the grade for Haansberg calculated?

Haansberg scores 4.1 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Haansberg lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.