neighbourhood in Maastricht

Boschpoort

1,590 residents · postal code 6219 · Part of Buitenwijk Noordwest, Maastricht

Bottom 1% in the Netherlands

Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children

Boschpoort scores no higher than 6.2 on any pillar, and the families pillar sinks deepest. With a primary school two kilometres away and a GP a little further still, this is a neighbourhood where daily distances count; school distance is the heaviest component of that 2.8.

All four recorded offence types are above the national median, burglary almost three times over. That is a different picture from a neighbourhood with one outlier: no single type explains the score on its own.

The quiet & nature pillar at 6.2 is the one bright spot, and that comes mainly from water — more than a third of the surface consists of it, against half a per cent nationally. Greenery and tree canopy are below the middle.

no. 12,974 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 39 of 40 in Maastricht

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Is Boschpoort 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

40.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.7 per 1,000

Property crime

11.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 87 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

1.4 km

GP practice

2.2 km

Train station

2.7 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

2.9 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

3.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.1 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

€ 277,000

Welfare recipients

44.0 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

39%

Social housing

46%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

56%

Built after 2000

17%

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

1,690 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

Water share

36%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,097

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

2.0 km

Households with children

20%

Childcare

2.1 km

Secondary school

3.4 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Boschpoort has strikingly few children under 15: 10%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6530%
NL median 28%
65+26%
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
1,690 — 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 Boschpoort a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Boschpoort comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Boschpoort 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 Boschpoort?

In Boschpoort the police recorded 87 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Boschpoort calculated?

Boschpoort scores 2.6 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 Boschpoort 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.