neighbourhood in Maastricht
Heugemerveld
2,840 residents · postal code 6221 · Part of Buitenwijk Oost, Maastricht
Everything close by, little space
Rarely does everything lie so close together as in Heugemerveld: supermarket, GP and primary school within half a kilometre, and even the railway station at one kilometre. Hence the 9.8 for amenities. What that pillar does not measure is whether people can afford that proximity, and that is where this neighbourhood gets stuck: the wealth & income pillar comes out at a 2.9, with a property value well below the median, more than half of households in the lowest income group and a social assistance rate of almost five times the national one.
The 2.6 for quiet & nature goes with a density of over eight thousand residents per square kilometre, little greenery in the surroundings and noise above the Dutch middle. The families score of 7.3 is almost entirely a distance figure: the school is around the corner, while there are few households with children and nearly two thirds live alone. Going by the numbers, this is a neighbourhood that has everything geographically and little financially.
- no. 10,732 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 24 of 40 in Maastricht
How Heugemerveld scores
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Is Heugemerveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Heugemerveld comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 107 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
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
Heugemerveld has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 24%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2524%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
63% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,605 — 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 Heugemerveld a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Heugemerveld comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Heugemerveld?
In Heugemerveld the police recorded 107 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Heugemerveld calculated?
Heugemerveld scores 3.8 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 Heugemerveld 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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