neighbourhood in Peel en Maas
Meijel-centrum
2,570 residents · postal code 5768 · Part of Meijel, Peel en Maas
Safe, but few children
For Meijel-centrum the amenities pillar is missing altogether. With an overall score of 4.1 that is no detail: the figure here rests on four pillars instead of five. Nothing can be said from this data about the distance to a shop, GP or school.
That makes the 3.0 for families hard to read, because the school distance is missing too — and that is normally the heaviest component of the pillar. What is certain is the population structure: almost a third of residents are over sixty-five and fewer than nine per cent under fifteen.
Safety here is unmistakably good. Violence, property crime and vandalism all sit below the national median and burglary is exactly on it; the total comes to about two thirds of the national level. The income data are missing as well — Statistics Netherlands does not publish those where there are too few households.
- no. 10,306 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 44 of 52 in Peel en Maas
How Meijel-centrum scores
Amenities
no grade
Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.
Why is there no grade →Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Meijel-centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meijel-centrum comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meijel-centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 51 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Peel en Maas →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Peel en Maas →
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
Is Meijel-centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meijel-centrum comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Meijel-centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Meijel-centrum?
In Meijel-centrum the police recorded 51 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Meijel-centrum calculated?
Meijel-centrum scores 4.1 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 Meijel-centrum 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Peel en Maas
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Peel en Maas.
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