neighbourhood in Maasgouw

Heel

4,145 residents · postal code 6097 · Part of Heel, Maasgouw

Top 27% in the Netherlands

Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children

Almost a third of Heel is 65 or older, and only eleven per cent is under fifteen. That is where the families score of 4.2 sits: the primary school is nine hundred metres away, so distance is not the problem — the age profile is.

Wealth & income comes out at a 5.8 even though incomes here are more favourable than the national picture and social assistance runs at half the median. What holds the score back is property value, the heaviest component of that pillar, which stays below the national median.

With some twelve hundred residents per square kilometre and a noise level a good six decibels under the median, Heel is among the quieter neighbourhoods in the country. The price of that is a railway station over nine kilometres away.

no. 3,530 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 2 of 15 in Maasgouw

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Is Heel a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heel comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Heel 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

12.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

2.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 58 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

9.4 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

6.2 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

0.9 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

€ 381,000

Welfare recipients

4.8 per 1,000

High incomes

21%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

76%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

85%

Built after 2000

24%

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

1,198 inw/km²

Noise level

45 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

487

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

0.9 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

4.8 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Heel has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4520%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
NL median 28%
65+31%
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
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,198 — 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 Heel a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Heel comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Heel 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 Heel?

In Heel the police recorded 58 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 Heel calculated?

Heel scores 8.0 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 Heel 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.