neighbourhood in Brunssum

Kruisberg

1,075 residents · postal code 6444 · Part of Brunssum-Centrum, Brunssum

Bottom 36% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Kruisberg is the rare neighbourhood where almost every figure lands on the national middle. The number of reported offences barely deviates from the Dutch median, and the same holds for the four types separately: violence and burglary just above, property crime and vandalism below. The 6.1 for safety is therefore a genuine middle score, not an averaging out of extremes.

The exception is property value, which stays at a good half of the Dutch middle and pulls the wealth pillar down to 4.0 while incomes, social assistance and vacancy sit close to the national picture. What a reader with children should know: the school is five hundred metres away, but in this neighbourhood only a quarter of households have children and one in ten residents is under fifteen.

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Is Kruisberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kruisberg comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch 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

24.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

6.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 29 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

0.8 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

6.1 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 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

€ 226,000

Welfare recipients

9.3 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

76%

Social housing

17%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

82%

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

4,676 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

44%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,132

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.6 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

0.5 km

Households with children

25%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kruisberg has strikingly few children under 15: 10%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
NL median 28%
65+22%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,676 — far 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 Kruisberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kruisberg comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Kruisberg?

In Kruisberg the police recorded 29 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Kruisberg calculated?

Kruisberg scores 5.2 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 Kruisberg 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.