neighbourhood in Roermond

Vrijveld

2,020 residents · postal code 6042 · Part of Roermond-Oost, Roermond

Bottom 10% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Theft determines almost everything in Vrijveld. More than half of the recorded offences are property crime, at more than four times the national median, and that drags safety down to a 2.6. Yet that is not the whole picture: violence and burglary also lie above the national middle here, so the usual reassurance that it is only about belongings does not apply.

Wealth & income comes out at a 3.5, but not on all components at once. The income distribution barely deviates from the national picture — high and low incomes both sit close to the median. What pushes the score down is property value, which stays far below it, and a social assistance rate more than four times the national middle.

Against that stands a neighbourhood where nothing is far. Supermarket, GP, school, restaurant and station are all within a kilometre, which yields a 9.3 for amenities. Anyone living here without a car gets everywhere; anyone parking a bike here locks it.

no. 11,769 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 31 of 36 in Roermond

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Is Vrijveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vrijveld comes out at 73 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vrijveld 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.

Total crime

72.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.7 per 1,000

Property crime

39.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 210 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

0.4 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

0.6 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 280,000

Welfare recipients

34.7 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

37%

Social housing

38%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

36%

Built after 2000

33%

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

4,187 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

27%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,783

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 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

0.4 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vrijveld has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,187 — 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 Vrijveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vrijveld comes out at 73 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vrijveld 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 Vrijveld?

In Vrijveld the police recorded 210 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (73 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 Vrijveld calculated?

Vrijveld scores 3.2 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 Vrijveld 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.