neighbourhood in Peel en Maas
Meijel-centrum
2,570 residents · postal code 5768 · Part of Meijel, Peel en Maas
Meijel-centrum is the ageing core of a Peel municipality: nearly one resident in three is over 65 and 78 per cent live in single-family homes. Safety stands out at 8.5 on seventeen crimes per 1,000 people present, well under the national median of 24. Wealth & income is the weak point at 4.5, with space and quiet closer to average at 6.0. Property, at 347,000 euro, sits below the national middle. Two in three homes are owned and income sits at 31,000 euro per resident.
- no. 10,306 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 44 of 52 in Peel en Maas
How Meijel-centrum scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 51 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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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
Meijel-centrum has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+32%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,822 — 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
How is the grade for Meijel-centrum calculated?
Meijel-centrum scores 4.1 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh four equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income and quiet & nature — and see where Meijel-centrum lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the four grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
Is Meijel-centrum a safe neighbourhood?
Meijel-centrum scores 8.5 on safety, based on registered crimes per 1,000 people present (16.9 per year). The national median is around 24.1.
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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Peel en Maas.
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