neighbourhood in Maastricht
Sint Maartenspoort
2,170 residents · postal code 6221 · Part of Centrum, Maastricht
Everything close by, little to spend
Three quarters of households in Sint Maartenspoort consist of one person and only one in ten has children. That is an exceptional composition, and it explains the 4.2 for families with a primary school a kilometre away: both the distance and the share of children work against it.
The crime total runs at more than three times the national median. Theft contributes most to that, but violence here is also at three times the national level, so this is not the picture of a shopping area where only possessions go missing. Only burglary is virtually absent.
The 2.8 for wealth & income belongs to a property value at two thirds of the national middle and six in ten households in the lowest income bracket. The same urban picture weighs on quiet & nature: the share of green space within three hundred metres does not reach a third of the national middle, while the share of water lies more than thirty times above it.
Only amenities score high, with supermarket, restaurant and station all close by.
- no. 12,367 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 35 of 40 in Maastricht
How Sint Maartenspoort scores
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Is Sint Maartenspoort a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sint Maartenspoort comes out at 74 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sint Maartenspoort 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, 223 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
Sint Maartenspoort has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 31%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–2531%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6517%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
75% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,911 — 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 Sint Maartenspoort a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sint Maartenspoort comes out at 74 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sint Maartenspoort 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 Sint Maartenspoort?
In Sint Maartenspoort the police recorded 223 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (74 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 Sint Maartenspoort calculated?
Sint Maartenspoort scores 2.9 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 Sint Maartenspoort 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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