neighbourhood in Heerlen
De Dem en omgeving
3,460 residents · postal code 6431 · Part of Hoensbroek - De Dem, Heerlen
Everything close by, little to spend
De Dem en omgeving in Heerlen shows how little accessibility matters when the rest does not follow. Supermarket, GP and primary school are all within six hundred metres, and the amenities pillar reaches 8.9 as a result. The overall score nevertheless stays at 3.2, because three of the five pillars sit far below the national middle.
The safety pillar is one of them, and it cannot be pinned on a single type of offence. Violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism are all four above the national median here, violence and vandalism at more than double. So there is no one type that explains the figure on its own.
The wealth & income pillar is even more emphatic. Homes here are worth on average less than half what they are elsewhere in the country, almost one in two households has a low income, and the social assistance rate is nearly five times the Dutch middle. Only the vacancy rate is entirely ordinary.
- no. 11,828 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 40 of 54 in Heerlen
How De Dem en omgeving scores
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Is De Dem en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Dem en omgeving comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Dem en omgeving is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 218 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
The age profile of De Dem en omgeving looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,029 — far more 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 De Dem en omgeving a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Dem en omgeving comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Dem en omgeving is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 De Dem en omgeving?
In De Dem en omgeving the police recorded 218 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 De Dem en omgeving calculated?
De Dem en omgeving scores 3.2 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 De Dem en omgeving 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.
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