neighbourhood in Brunssum

Langenberg

1,330 residents · postal code 6445 · Part of Brunssum-Zuid, Brunssum

Top 46% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Langenberg is one of the few neighbourhoods where a raised crime rate goes together with a good safety score. The total is well above the national median, but violence, burglary, vandalism and property crime are all four below it — violence and burglary far below. Because those two carry the most weight, the pillar comes out at 7.7.

The 4.1 for wealth & income comes almost entirely from property value, which is about half the Dutch middle; social assistance and vacancy barely deviate from the national picture here, and neither does the share of low incomes. What the neighbourhood offers besides is trees: the tree canopy is more than double the national median, and that carries the 6.5 for quiet & nature in a place with urban density.

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Is Langenberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Langenberg comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

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

Total crime

30.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

8.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 48 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

0.7 km

GP practice

1.7 km

Train station

5.5 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

1.9 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 217,000

Welfare recipients

7.5 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

93%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

99%

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

4,594 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

57%

Trees nearby

23%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,362

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.5 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

0.6 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6532%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,594 — 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 Langenberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Langenberg comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.7. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 31 records per 1,000, 1.7 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Langenberg?

In Langenberg the police recorded 48 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 Langenberg calculated?

Langenberg scores 6.6 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 Langenberg 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.