neighbourhood in Kerkrade

Terwinselen

3,850 residents · postal code 6467 · Part of Kerkrade-West, Kerkrade

Bottom 44% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Terwinselen is a neighbourhood whose profile sits exactly at the Dutch median on two points: the share of households on a low income and the vacancy rate deviate from it in neither direction. That makes the wealth & income pillar easy to read. The 4.0 comes almost entirely from property values, which sit well below the Dutch median, with a slightly smaller share of high incomes as the second factor.

For amenities there is an 8.7, and it is earned: supermarket, GP, primary school and restaurant are all within six hundred metres, and the railway station under four kilometres. For a neighbourhood outside the Randstad that combination is unusually complete.

The population is old — nearly three in ten residents are 65 or older — and that pushes the families pillar down to a 6.6 despite the short school distance. Among the offences only burglary sits above the national median; the total stays just below it, which produces a 6.0 for safety.

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no. 2 of 17 in Kerkrade

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Is Terwinselen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Terwinselen comes out at 23 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

23.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

6.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 104 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

0.5 km

Train station

3.6 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

3.3 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.9 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

€ 256,000

Welfare recipients

10.4 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

71%

Social housing

15%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

83%

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

3,579 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,967

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

0.6 km

Households with children

33%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

4.0 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Terwinselen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+29%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,579 — 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 Terwinselen a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Terwinselen comes out at 23 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 Terwinselen?

In Terwinselen the police recorded 104 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Terwinselen calculated?

Terwinselen scores 5.8 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 Terwinselen 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.