neighbourhood in Sittard-Geleen

Geleen-Noord

4,470 residents · postal code 6162 · Part of Geleen, Sittard-Geleen

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Geleen-Noord scores an 8.4 for amenities and a fail on every other pillar. Station, GP and restaurant are all within a kilometre, but the overall score of 2.8 puts that accessibility in perspective: the neighbourhood is well connected and otherwise weaker than the national median on almost every count.

Crime here has a different character from most neighbourhoods with a low safety score. It is not only property offences that sit above the median; violence and vandalism do too, vandalism at more than double. That is not the profile of things going missing but of what happens on the street.

The primary school is 1.2 kilometres away and that weighs on the families pillar, where school and childcare distance together make up almost two thirds. For a household with young children that is a drive every morning.

no. 12,588 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 33 of 36 in Sittard-Geleen

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Is Geleen-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

39.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.5 per 1,000

Property crime

10.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 229 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

1.1 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

0.9 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

1.7 km

Café

1.0 km

Library

1.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.5 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

€ 268,000

Welfare recipients

22.4 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

52%

Built after 2000

26%

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

3,900 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

47%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,087

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.7 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

1.2 km

Households with children

23%

Childcare

1.0 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Geleen-Noord looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+25%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,900 — 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 Geleen-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Geleen-Noord comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Geleen-Noord 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 Geleen-Noord?

In Geleen-Noord the police recorded 229 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Geleen-Noord calculated?

Geleen-Noord scores 2.8 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 Geleen-Noord 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.