neighbourhood in Roermond
Kastelenbuurt
2,010 residents · postal code 6043 · Part of Donderberg, Roermond
Everything close by, safety lags
Everything here is within four hundred metres: supermarket, GP, restaurant, primary school. That gives Kastelenbuurt a 9.7 for amenities and a 9.5 for families — two of the highest scores a Dutch neighbourhood can reach. Against that stands a 2.7 for safety, and that is no detail.
The number of reported offences is almost three times the national figure, and its composition is unusual. Theft and property crime are far above the national median, but violence here is also nearly three times as high. So this is not only a matter of things going missing.
The 4.2 for wealth & income does not come from social assistance — that is actually below the national median. It sits in the property value, which stays well over a third below the median, and in the share of low-income households. That is a different story from what the score alone suggests.
- no. 6,447 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 36 in Roermond
How Kastelenbuurt scores
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Is Kastelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastelenbuurt comes out at 67 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kastelenbuurt 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, 192 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
The age profile of Kastelenbuurt looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,364 — 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 Kastelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastelenbuurt comes out at 67 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kastelenbuurt 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 Kastelenbuurt?
In Kastelenbuurt the police recorded 192 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (67 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 Kastelenbuurt calculated?
Kastelenbuurt scores 6.3 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 Kastelenbuurt 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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