neighbourhood in Echt-Susteren

Schilberg

1,980 residents · postal code 6101 · Part of Peij, Echt-Susteren

Bottom 15% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Schilberg has everything within walking distance, including a railway station less than a kilometre away, and that earns it an 8.7 for amenities. It makes the contrast with the 3.6 for safety all the sharper.

That low figure does not come from things going missing: property offences here are slightly below the national middle. It comes from violence and from home burglary, which is reported three times as often as nationally. Those are precisely the two categories that count most heavily in the safety pillar, and it explains why a neighbourhood with an almost ordinary total of reported offences still ends up near the bottom of the table.

The 4.0 for wealth & income has a clear source. The rate of social assistance is more than twice the national figure, the highest income group is thinner than usual, and property values lag far behind the national median. Vacancy is the only measure that is low here.

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no. 26 of 37 in Echt-Susteren

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Is Schilberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schilberg comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

28.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.8 per 1,000

Property crime

8.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 69 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

0.9 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.6 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

0.4 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

€ 288,000

Welfare recipients

20.2 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

65%

Social housing

17%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

71%

Built after 2000

15%

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

2,240 inw/km²

Noise level

54 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

1,334

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.

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

0.9 km

Households with children

27%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

2.0 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Schilberg 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%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+23%
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
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,240 — 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 Schilberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schilberg comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Schilberg?

In Schilberg the police recorded 69 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Schilberg calculated?

Schilberg scores 3.6 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 Schilberg 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.