neighbourhood in Heerlen

Maria Gewanden

3,455 residents · postal code 6432 · Part of Maria Gewanden - Terschuren, Heerlen

Bottom 15% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

In Maria Gewanden the social assistance rate is almost six times the national middle, and that is not the only component pushing the wealth & income pillar down to 2.7. Homes here do not reach half the Dutch median value, roughly one in ten households has a high income and almost half a low one. Only the vacancy rate falls within the ordinary.

The safety pillar sits close by but has a different cause. Here it is mainly violence: more than double the national middle, while burglary actually stays below the median. Property crime and vandalism are only modestly above.

Against all that stands a 7.1 for families, which comes almost entirely from proximity. The primary school is five hundred metres away, while the share of children under fifteen stays below the national average. In that pillar closeness weighs more heavily than the age profile.

no. 11,130 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 31 of 54 in Heerlen

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Is Maria Gewanden 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

38.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

10.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 163 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

0.8 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

2.8 km

Restaurant

0.8 km

Hospital

5.5 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 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

€ 202,000

Welfare recipients

46.3 per 1,000

High incomes

10%

Low incomes

47%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

56%

Social housing

33%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

70%

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

2,427 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

64%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,697

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.5 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

24%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Maria Gewanden looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4525%
NL median 22%
45–6529%
NL median 28%
65+26%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,427 — around the 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 Maria Gewanden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Maria Gewanden comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Maria Gewanden 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 Maria Gewanden?

In Maria Gewanden the police recorded 163 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Maria Gewanden calculated?

Maria Gewanden scores 3.6 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 Maria Gewanden 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.