neighbourhood in Sittard-Geleen
Limbricht
2,545 residents · postal code 6141 · Part of Guttecoven, Sittard-Geleen
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Property values in Limbricht are well below the national median, and yet the overall score comes out at 9.5. Those two rarely go together. The income breakdown is even slightly better than average and social assistance is exactly at the national midpoint, so it is almost solely the price of housing that keeps the wealth & income pillar at 5.8.
For families there is a 9.1: the primary school is four hundred metres away and a third of households have children. Quiet & nature follows at 8.4, carried by a thinly populated setting, plenty of greenery and a tree canopy well above the national midpoint.
Among the offences it is notable that burglary is almost absent while violence is slightly above the median. The total stays below it, and that produces an 8.2 for safety.
- no. 890 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 36 in Sittard-Geleen
How Limbricht scores
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Is Limbricht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Limbricht comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 70 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
Limbricht has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
29% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
881 — 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 Limbricht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Limbricht comes out at 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Limbricht?
In Limbricht the police recorded 70 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (23 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 Limbricht calculated?
Limbricht scores 9.5 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 Limbricht 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.
More about this area
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