neighbourhood in Heerlen

Schandelen

1,620 residents · postal code 6412 · Part of Schandelen - Grasbroek, Heerlen

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Schandelen has a 9.5 for amenities and a 2.7 as its overall score, and that gap is the story of this neighbourhood. GP, supermarket, restaurant and station are all within a kilometre — accessibility hardly gets better in the Netherlands.

The rest of the page points the other way. Property value stays well below half the Dutch median, more than half of households are in the lowest income group and the social assistance rate is seven times the national middle. The offence rate is almost twice the median, with burglary more than three times above it and violence double. More than six in ten homes are occupied by a single person, and only one in six households has children — the share of children is among the lowest in the country.

no. 12,664 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 51 of 54 in Heerlen

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Is Schandelen 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

47.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.2 per 1,000

Property crime

12.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 100 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

1.0 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

4.1 km

Café

0.8 km

Library

0.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 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

€ 173,000

Welfare recipients

55.6 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

53%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

34%

Social housing

47%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

42%

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

6,009 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,017

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.9 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

17%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schandelen has strikingly few children under 15: 9%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,009 — 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 Schandelen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schandelen comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schandelen 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 Schandelen?

In Schandelen the police recorded 100 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Schandelen calculated?

Schandelen scores 2.7 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 Schandelen 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.