neighbourhood in Maastricht
Brusselsepoort
5,235 residents · postal code 6217 · Part of Buitenwijk West, Maastricht
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
For Brusselsepoort the distances to amenities are missing, and with them one of the five pillars: the overall score of 2.5 rests here on four.
The families pillar gets stuck at that same level, and that is a matter of who lives there. More than seven in ten households consist of one person and about one in nine have children; children are rare there.
The safety figure is made above all by violence: it is at more than double the national level, while burglary stays below it and theft and vandalism above it. With wealth the vacancy stands out: in this part of Maastricht twice as much stands empty as in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and that counts towards that pillar alongside the property value, which is far below the middle.
- no. 13,070 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 40 of 40 in Maastricht
How Brusselsepoort scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Brusselsepoort a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brusselsepoort comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Brusselsepoort is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 319 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Brusselsepoort has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 34%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–157%
NL median 14%
- 15–2534%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6516%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
71% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,719 — 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 Brusselsepoort a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Brusselsepoort comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Brusselsepoort 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 Brusselsepoort?
In Brusselsepoort the police recorded 319 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (45 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 Brusselsepoort calculated?
Brusselsepoort scores 2.5 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 Brusselsepoort 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.
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