neighbourhood in Heerlen

Op de Nobel

1,845 residents · postal code 6411 · Part of Heerlen-Centrum, Heerlen

Bottom 29% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Op de Nobel has a 10.0 for amenities: GP, supermarket and restaurant are within four hundred metres and the station just over a kilometre. Only a few dozen neighbourhoods in the Netherlands match that.

Set against it is a population you rarely see this one-sided. More than seven in ten homes are occupied by a single person, one in ten households has children, and the share of residents under fifteen stays below ten per cent. That pushes the families pillar down to 5.8, despite the school eight hundred metres away. The 4.6 for safety comes from property offences one and a half times the national middle and violence twice above it; burglary is virtually absent here. And the wealth pillar stays at 3.1 through a property value of less than half the median.

no. 9,323 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 19 of 54 in Heerlen

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Is Op de Nobel 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

43.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

14.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 115 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.2 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.8 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.9 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

€ 182,000

Welfare recipients

21.7 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

41%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

26%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

50%

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

7,176 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

43%

Trees nearby

18%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,993

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.7 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

0.8 km

Households with children

10%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Op de Nobel has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 19%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–2519%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6518%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
72% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,176 — 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 Op de Nobel a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Op de Nobel comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Op de Nobel 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 Op de Nobel?

In Op de Nobel the police recorded 115 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (44 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 Op de Nobel calculated?

Op de Nobel 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 Op de Nobel 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.