neighbourhood in Heerlen

Douve Weien

3,695 residents · postal code 6417 · Part of Caumerveld-Douve Weien, Heerlen

Bottom 29% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

The 3.8 for wealth & income in Douve Weien says something other than it usually would. The income distribution here does not lean unfavourably: the share of households on a high income sits exactly on the national median and the share on a low income falls below it. What pulls the score down is the property value, by far the heaviest component, together with a social assistance rate three times the national one. This is not a neighbourhood of low incomes but of cheap homes.

The families score of 7.0 in turn does not come from the population — fewer than a quarter of households have children and the share of under-fifteens is small. It comes from the distances: the primary school is five hundred metres away. Anyone raising children here travels little, but finds few peers.

no. 9,286 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 18 of 54 in Heerlen

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Is Douve Weien a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Douve Weien comes out at 31 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

30.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

12.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 140 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

0.6 km

Train station

2.6 km

Restaurant

0.9 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

0.9 km

Library

2.1 km

Motorway ramp

0.8 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

€ 234,000

Welfare recipients

24.4 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

42%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

38%

Built after 2000

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

4,649 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

58%

Trees nearby

17%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,716

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.6 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

0.5 km

Households with children

18%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Douve Weien has strikingly few children under 15: 10%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+28%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
57% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,649 — 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 Douve Weien a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Douve Weien comes out at 31 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 Douve Weien?

In Douve Weien the police recorded 140 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 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 Douve Weien calculated?

Douve Weien scores 4.7 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 Douve Weien 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.