neighbourhood in Heerlen

Welten-Dorp

3,590 residents · postal code 6419 · Part of Welten-Benzenrade, Heerlen

Bottom 34% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Four in ten residents of Welten-Dorp are 65 or over, more than double the national picture. That explains the 5.0 for families better than the distance to school does: children are scarce here, and the share of households with children stays far below the Dutch middle.

The wealth & income pillar is the most interesting. A 4.9 sounds weak, but the income picture is not: higher incomes are better represented here than nationally, lower incomes thinner, and the social assistance rate sits practically on the median. What pulls the score down is property value, and that weighs heaviest in this pillar.

On quiet & nature two measurements collide. Greenery and tree canopy are well above the national median, but traffic noise is far above it. A green setting is not a quiet one here.

no. 8,671 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 14 of 54 in Heerlen

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Is Welten-Dorp a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Welten-Dorp comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch 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

24.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

10.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 116 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

0.6 km

GP practice

1.6 km

Train station

2.5 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

2.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.0 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

€ 288,000

Welfare recipients

8.4 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

33%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

72%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

65%

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

2,158 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

60%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,122

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

0.8 km

Households with children

21%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Welten-Dorp has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–257%
NL median 11%
25–4516%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+41%
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
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,158 — less 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 Welten-Dorp a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Welten-Dorp comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Welten-Dorp?

In Welten-Dorp the police recorded 116 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Welten-Dorp calculated?

Welten-Dorp scores 5.0 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 Welten-Dorp 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.