neighbourhood in Gulpen-Wittem

Gulpen

3,465 residents · postal code 6271 · Part of Gulpen, Gulpen-Wittem

Bottom 35% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Everything you can reach on foot in Gulpen stands against a housing market in the bottom quarter of the country. The amenities pillar comes out at 8.0 and quiet & nature at 7.8, but wealth & income stays stuck at 3.5 — and every component drags that figure down at once. Low property values, few high-income households, many low-income ones, social assistance well above the national middle, and a vacancy rate more than double the median. There is not a single bright spot in it.

The offence rate is above the national middle, but it is almost entirely about property. Property crime and vandalism are higher than average, violence is lower. That is the pattern of a village centre with shops and pubs, not of a place where you would rather stay indoors after dark.

The primary school is around the corner and still the families pillar reads 5.3. That comes down to who lives here: almost four in ten residents are 65 or older.

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Is Gulpen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gulpen comes out at 29 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

29.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

12.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 142 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

0.7 km

Train station

5.9 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

10.8 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.6 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

€ 304,000

Welfare recipients

14.4 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

50%

Social housing

29%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

60%

Built after 2000

19%

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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

2,170 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

71%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

599

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.0 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

22%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

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Who lives here

Gulpen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 38%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4517%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+38%
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
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,170 — 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 Gulpen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gulpen comes out at 29 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 Gulpen?

In Gulpen the police recorded 142 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Gulpen calculated?

Gulpen scores 5.1 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 Gulpen 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.