neighbourhood in Maastricht

Scharn

6,875 residents · postal code 6226 · Part of Buitenwijk Oost, Maastricht

Top 49% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Scharn has a broad income distribution in the literal sense: both the highest and the lowest income group are thicker there than in the rest of the country. That is unusual, because normally one shrinks as the other grows. The wealth pillar does not get far with it: a 4.7, pressed down by a property value below the national median and a vacancy that amounts to almost double that.

The safety score of 4.4 has no outlier at all. Violence, burglary, theft and vandalism all four lie above the national level, but none of them dramatically. That score therefore comes from the breadth and not from one problem, and that is something other than such a low score suggests.

Set against that is a 9.3 for amenities: everything that weighs heavily in that pillar lies within a kilometre.

no. 6,353 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 11 of 40 in Maastricht

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Is Scharn a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Scharn comes out at 26 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

26.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

10.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.9 per 1,000

In 2025, 243 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.

Supermarket

0.7 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.0 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

0.9 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

€ 368,000

Welfare recipients

13.1 per 1,000

High incomes

25%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

52%

Built after 2000

10%

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

1,867 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

56%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,690

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.4 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

0.6 km

Households with children

20%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Scharn has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 21%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2521%
NL median 11%
25–4523%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+21%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,867 — 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 Scharn a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Scharn comes out at 26 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 Scharn?

In Scharn the police recorded 243 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Scharn calculated?

Scharn scores 6.4 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 Scharn 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.