neighbourhood in Kerkrade

Eygelshoven-Kom

2,120 residents · postal code 6471 · Part of Kerkrade-Noord, Kerkrade

Bottom 37% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

A 9.9 for amenities here literally means everything within a kilometre, the railway station included. Eygelshoven-Kom thus achieves one of the highest accessibility scores in the country, and that in a place with fewer than two thousand residents per square kilometre — a rare combination.

The 5.6 for families does not come from distance: the primary school is around the corner. It is about who lives here. A third of residents are 65 or older and the share of children is around half the national median. This is a neighbourhood ageing while the facilities for young families are in fact present.

The wealth & income pillar stays at 2.8. Property value is far below the national median, the social assistance rate well above it, and the income distribution points the same way. Vacancy is slightly raised, but that is not what makes this figure.

no. 8,242 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 3 of 17 in Kerkrade

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Is Eygelshoven-Kom 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

40.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

14.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 123 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

0.5 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

3.8 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.6 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

€ 197,000

Welfare recipients

28.3 per 1,000

High incomes

10%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

49%

Social housing

29%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

45%

Built after 2000

11%

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

1,715 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

50%

Trees nearby

16%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,106

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

0.5 km

Households with children

20%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

3.6 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Eygelshoven-Kom has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–257%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+33%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,715 — 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 Eygelshoven-Kom a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Eygelshoven-Kom comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Eygelshoven-Kom 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 Eygelshoven-Kom?

In Eygelshoven-Kom the police recorded 123 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Eygelshoven-Kom calculated?

Eygelshoven-Kom scores 5.3 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 Eygelshoven-Kom 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.