neighbourhood in Sittard-Geleen
Grevenbicht
2,280 residents · postal code 6127 · Part of Obbicht en Papenhoven, Sittard-Geleen
Safe streets, thinner wallets
The sound level in Grevenbicht is so far below the national median that it almost falls into a different category. Combined with few residents per square kilometre and a lot of open water that produces an 8.2 for quiet & nature, which is notable because green cover and tree canopy here stay below the national middle. Silence and space do the work that elsewhere comes from trees.
The 4.6 for wealth & income has one cause and no other. Social assistance, vacancy and both income groups are all four more or less exactly at the national middle; what pulls the figure down is the property value, and that counts for most within the pillar. This is not a neighbourhood with problems but one with cheap houses.
The primary school is six hundred metres away and yet families gets no further than 5.5. That lies in who lives here: almost a third of residents are 65 or over and the share of children is below the national middle.
- no. 4,038 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 36 in Sittard-Geleen
How Grevenbicht scores
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Is Grevenbicht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Grevenbicht comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grevenbicht 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, 29 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
Grevenbicht has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
738 — far less 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 Grevenbicht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Grevenbicht comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Grevenbicht 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 Grevenbicht?
In Grevenbicht the police recorded 29 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Grevenbicht calculated?
Grevenbicht scores 7.7 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 Grevenbicht 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 Sittard-Geleen
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Sittard-Geleen.
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