neighbourhood in Maasgouw

Beegden

1,900 residents · postal code 6099 · Part of Beegden, Maasgouw

Top 9% in the Netherlands

Room to spare, amenities further off

Beegden ranks nationally at the top of the quiet & nature pillar: 9.9, with seven in ten square metres of the surrounding area green, more than twice as much tree canopy as nationally and noise well below the median. At two hundred and fifty residents per square kilometre that is no coincidence.

Safety is solid too, with all four offence types below the national middle. Where Beegden gives ground is access: supermarket and GP are two kilometres off and the station much further still, which holds the amenities pillar at 4.7. And property values stay below the national median; that is the brake on the wealth & income pillar.

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Is Beegden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Beegden comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Beegden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

12.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

5.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 24 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

1.8 km

GP practice

2.0 km

Train station

7.5 km

Restaurant

1.7 km

Hospital

7.6 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 373,000

Welfare recipients

5.3 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

84%

Social housing

10%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

93%

Built after 2000

13%

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

259 inw/km²

Noise level

48 dB

Green surroundings

70%

Trees nearby

23%

Water share

10%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

282

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

0.4 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.9 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Beegden has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4521%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+30%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
259 — far 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 Beegden a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Beegden comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Beegden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Beegden?

In Beegden the police recorded 24 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Beegden calculated?

Beegden scores 9.4 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 Beegden 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.