neighbourhood in Roermond

Kern Maasniel

3,750 residents · postal code 6042 · Part of Maasniel, Roermond

Bottom 37% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Burglary in Kern Maasniel occurs more than four times as often as nationally, and that is what marks the 3.8 for safety most sharply. Violence and property crime are above the median too; only vandalism stays below.

Set against that is a 9.4 for amenities, unusual for a municipality of this size: the supermarket, the GP and a restaurant are all five hundred metres away and the railway station is less than a kilometre and a half out. For daily journeys a car is not a requirement here.

Wealth & income lags at 4.1, mainly because of a property value well below the national median and a social assistance rate more than twice above it. The income distribution itself barely deviates from the national picture — the difference lies in the housing market, not in what people earn.

no. 8,281 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 19 of 36 in Roermond

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Is Kern Maasniel a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kern Maasniel comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

31.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.5 per 1,000

Property crime

14.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 155 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

1.4 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

2.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 320,000

Welfare recipients

18.7 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

61%

Social housing

29%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

76%

Built after 2000

17%

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

3,789 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

40%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,773

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 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

29%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Kern Maasniel looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+27%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,789 — 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 Kern Maasniel a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kern Maasniel comes out at 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Kern Maasniel?

In Kern Maasniel the police recorded 155 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (32 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 Kern Maasniel calculated?

Kern Maasniel scores 5.3 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 Kern Maasniel 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.