neighbourhood in Maastricht

Caberg

3,295 residents · postal code 6217 · Part of Buitenwijk West, Maastricht

Bottom 17% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Caberg is almost unbeatable on amenities — supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within four hundred metres — and comes out at 2.6 for wealth & income. In that pillar one component sits exactly on the national median: vacancy. All the others point far down, with a property value well below the middle, a social assistance rate almost ten times the national one and nearly six in ten households in the lowest income group.

The safety score of 3.0 comes mainly from violence, which here is more than three times the national median. Theft and vandalism are above it too; only burglary stays close to the middle.

That the families score reaches 8.4 while the share of children is average comes from the primary school around the corner — distance is by far the heaviest part of that pillar.

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no. 26 of 40 in Maastricht

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Is Caberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Caberg comes out at 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Caberg 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.

Total crime

43.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

13.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 175 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

3.7 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

0.5 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

3.2 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

€ 247,000

Welfare recipients

75.9 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

59%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

17%

Social housing

72%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

58%

Built after 2000

15%

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

5,433 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

51%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,115

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.6 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

27%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Caberg has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,433 — 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 Caberg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Caberg comes out at 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Caberg 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 Caberg?

In Caberg the police recorded 175 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (43 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 Caberg calculated?

Caberg scores 3.7 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 Caberg 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.