neighbourhood in Sittard-Geleen
Hondsbroek
3,050 residents · postal code 6121 · Part of Holtum-Born, Sittard-Geleen
Safe, but not spacious
Hondsbroek is safe without any single figure standing out: violence, theft and vandalism all three sit below the national median and burglary exactly on it. That is how an 8.7 comes about — not because one type of offence is missing, but because there is little of any type.
What sits against that, you can hear. Noise is well above the national median and greenery in the surroundings stays just below it, which leaves quiet & nature at a 4.0.
Children live here in almost half of all households and the primary school is six hundred metres away; that is where the 8.4 for families comes from. Wealth & income lags behind the rest: property values are below the national median and more social assistance is paid out than average, while the share of high incomes actually sits above the national level.
- no. 3,742 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 36 in Sittard-Geleen
How Hondsbroek scores
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Is Hondsbroek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hondsbroek comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Hondsbroek 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, 52 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 Hondsbroek looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6533%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
44% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,081 — 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 Hondsbroek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hondsbroek comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Hondsbroek 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 Hondsbroek?
In Hondsbroek the police recorded 52 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Hondsbroek calculated?
Hondsbroek scores 7.9 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 Hondsbroek 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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