neighbourhood in Heerlen
Meezenbroek
2,920 residents · postal code 6415 · Part of Meezenbroek-Schaesbergerveld, Heerlen
Everything close by, little to spend
Property values in Meezenbroek sit at roughly forty per cent of the national median, six in ten households fall into the lower income group, and on social assistance the area sits at more than ten times the national level. A 2.6 for wealth & income follows from that; no component points the other way.
Safety comes out at exactly the same score, and there violence is the deciding factor: more than three times the national median, while violence is the heaviest component of that pillar. Criminal damage is at more than double as well.
What this Heerlen neighbourhood does have is quiet. Noise is clearly below the national median, the tree canopy above it and greenery close to it. At a 6.2, quiet & nature is the second-strongest score here — a side of the place that appears in no other figure.
- no. 11,928 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 43 of 54 in Heerlen
How Meezenbroek scores
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Is Meezenbroek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meezenbroek comes out at 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Meezenbroek 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, 180 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
Meezenbroek has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
48% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
32% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,842 — 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 Meezenbroek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meezenbroek comes out at 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Meezenbroek 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 Meezenbroek?
In Meezenbroek the police recorded 180 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (51 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 Meezenbroek calculated?
Meezenbroek 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 Meezenbroek 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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