neighbourhood in Heerlen

Hoensbroek-Centrum

3,320 residents · postal code 6431 · Part of Hoensbroek - De Dem, Heerlen

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Everything you need day to day is around the corner in Hoensbroek-Centrum — the amenities pillar reaches 9.2 — and on every other pillar the neighbourhood falls away. The overall score comes out at 2.8, and the wealth & income pillar is lower still at 2.5. Nothing there points the right way: property value is a fraction of the national middle, the social assistance rate almost ten times the median, the lowest income group covers more than half of households and vacancy is well over twice the national level.

That vacancy is the component a reader expects least and sees most. It sits in the wealth & income pillar, not the safety one, but it stands in the same streets.

Among the offences, theft is furthest above the national middle at almost three times the median; violence, at well over double, is not far behind.

no. 12,614 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 49 of 54 in Heerlen

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Is Hoensbroek-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

65.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

27.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 301 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.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.4 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

4.9 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 159,000

Welfare recipients

78.3 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

57%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

23%

Social housing

61%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

45%

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

4,816 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

46%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,424

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

0.9 km

Households with children

19%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hoensbroek-Centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+31%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
58% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,816 — 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 Hoensbroek-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoensbroek-Centrum comes out at 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hoensbroek-Centrum 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 Hoensbroek-Centrum?

In Hoensbroek-Centrum the police recorded 301 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (66 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 Hoensbroek-Centrum calculated?

Hoensbroek-Centrum scores 2.8 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 Hoensbroek-Centrum 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.