neighbourhood in Eijsden-Margraten

Eijsden-Breust

4,290 residents · postal code 6245 · Part of Eijsden, Eijsden-Margraten

Top 17% in the Netherlands

Safe, but few children

The weak point of Eijsden-Breust is the distance to the primary school: one and a half kilometres, while the supermarket, the GP and a restaurant are all within walking distance. Because school distance is the heaviest component of the families pillar, it stays stuck at a 3.8 — the only figure here that falls below mid-table.

For anyone without school-age children the same place looks entirely different. All four offence types are below the national median, the noise level almost five decibels under it, and the station is reachable a kilometre away.

More than a third of residents are over sixty-five and the share of children is far below the national level. The lowest-scoring pillar here is therefore also the pillar that, for most residents, is not about their own lives.

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Is Eijsden-Breust a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Eijsden-Breust comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Eijsden-Breust is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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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

15.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

5.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 80 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

7.0 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 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

€ 381,000

Welfare recipients

7.0 per 1,000

High incomes

21%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

74%

Social housing

16%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

80%

Built after 2000

14%

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

1,250 inw/km²

Noise level

47 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

957

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.2 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

1.5 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

8.5 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Eijsden-Breust has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4519%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+36%
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
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,250 — far less 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 Eijsden-Breust a safe neighbourhood?

How much crime is there in Eijsden-Breust?

In Eijsden-Breust the police recorded 80 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Eijsden-Breust calculated?

Eijsden-Breust scores 8.8 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 Eijsden-Breust 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.