neighbourhood in Echt-Susteren

Peij

2,995 residents · postal code 6102 · Part of Peij, Echt-Susteren

Bottom 50% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Peij is thinly built up by Dutch standards, with fewer than two and a half thousand residents per square kilometre, and the noise level is below the national median. Even so, the quiet & nature pillar stalls at 4.8. The reason lies in greenery: both the green share and the tree canopy in the immediate surroundings are below the national median, and there is no water. Quiet counts for only a fifth of that pillar.

The crime total is just above the national median, but not because a lot is stolen: property offences and burglaries are in fact below the median. It is violence and vandalism that come out above it, and at this neighbourhood size that is a matter of a handful of reports a year.

Amenities score high at 9.0. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are within seven hundred metres and the station is a kilometre and a half away.

no. 6,627 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 13 of 37 in Echt-Susteren

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Is Peij a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Peij comes out at 25 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

25.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

5.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 97 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

0.5 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

3.5 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

2.4 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 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

€ 325,000

Welfare recipients

13.4 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

69%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

80%

Built after 2000

24%

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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

2,451 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

49%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

848

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 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.

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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

0.7 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.9 km

Residents under 15

13%

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Who lives here

Peij has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+29%
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
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,451 — around the 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 Peij a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Peij comes out at 25 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 Peij?

In Peij the police recorded 97 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Peij calculated?

Peij scores 6.2 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 Peij 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.