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neighbourhood in Eijsden-Margraten

Margraten

3,505 residents · postal code 6269 · Part of Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten

  • no. 2,024 of 13,064 neighbourhoods in the Netherlands
  • no. 3 of 33 in Eijsden-Margraten

Scores per pillar

Rural southern Limburg, with fewer than 500 residents per square kilometre. Safety tops the card here at 9.7, on barely 14 crimes per 1,000 people present. Eight in ten homes are single-family houses, and a third of residents are 65 or older. At €378,000 the average home stays below the national median, and housing, at 5.8, is the lowest-scoring pillar.

Amenities nearby

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Large supermarket
0.6 km
General practitioner
0.5 km
Primary school
0.9 km
Secondary school
5.6 km
Childcare
0.5 km
Train station
6.2 km
Hospital
8.4 km
Restaurant
0.4 km
Café
0.8 km
Library
0.8 km

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year (residents plus business activity, see method). Small neighbourhoods are statistically smoothed.

Total crimes
13.8
Violent crimes
0.2
Burglaries
0.4

per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses)

Housing

Average property value
€ 378,000
Owner-occupied
75%
Single-family homes
80%
Built after 2000
20%
Income per resident
€ 35,000

Who lives here

0–15 14%15–25 7%25–45 21%45–65 25%65+ 32%
Average household size
2.2
Households with children
32%
Single-person households
30%
Residents per km²
489

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Frequently asked questions

How is the grade for Margraten calculated?

Margraten scores 8.8 overall. That is a weighted average of five pillars: safety, amenities, housing, social & income, and nature & quiet. Each pillar compares this neighbourhood with every other neighbourhood in the Netherlands, using open data from CBS and the police.

Is Margraten a safe neighbourhood?

Margraten scores 9.7 on safety, based on registered crimes per 1,000 people present (13.8 per year). The national median is around 24.1.