neighbourhood in Maastricht

Kommelkwartier

2,885 residents · postal code 6211 · Part of Centrum, Maastricht

Bottom 23% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Almost three quarters of households in Kommelkwartier consist of one person and the share of children is a fraction of the national level. That explains the 4.0 for families: the primary school is eight hundred metres away, so distance is not the issue — the children themselves are what is missing.

The safety score of 6.9 is better than is usual for a centre neighbourhood at this building density. Burglaries and vandalism sit below the Dutch middle value, property offences below it too, and only violence comes out slightly above.

Wealth and income stops at 3.7, and that is not one outlier but a broad picture: property value is well under the national middle, more than half of households fall into the bottom income group and one in ten addresses is vacant — more than twice as often as nationally. What the neighbourhood sets against that is proximity: the GP and a restaurant are a few hundred metres away.

no. 10,074 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 18 of 40 in Maastricht

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Is Kommelkwartier a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kommelkwartier comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch 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

25.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

8.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 95 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

0.4 km

Train station

2.7 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.1 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

2.2 km

Motorway ramp

3.1 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

€ 337,000

Welfare recipients

10.4 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

53%

Vacancy

10%

Owner-occupied

26%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

17%

Built after 2000

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

11,305 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

33%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,323

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 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

0.8 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kommelkwartier has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 35%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–153%
NL median 14%
15–2535%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6515%
NL median 28%
65+24%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
74% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
6% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
11,305 — 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 Kommelkwartier a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kommelkwartier comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Kommelkwartier?

In Kommelkwartier the police recorded 95 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Kommelkwartier calculated?

Kommelkwartier scores 4.2 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 Kommelkwartier 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.