neighbourhood in Sittard-Geleen
Munstergeleen
4,495 residents · postal code 6151 · Part of Munstergeleen, Sittard-Geleen
Everything close by, little to spend
Munstergeleen combines an 8.5 for quiet & nature with an 8.7 for amenities, and that is a rare pairing: proximity and quiet usually rule each other out. Here everything is within seven hundred metres while density is low, the noise level stays below the national median and almost two thirds of the surroundings are green.
The families pillar lags at 5.9, and distance is not to blame — the primary school is around the corner. It lies in the population: almost a third of residents are 65 or older and few children live here.
The wealth & income pillar comes out at 4.6, mainly because of a property value well below the national median; the income picture barely deviates from average. Among the offences, burglary is the only item above the national median.
- no. 2,805 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 36 in Sittard-Geleen
How Munstergeleen scores
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Is Munstergeleen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Munstergeleen comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 106 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
Munstergeleen has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,427 — 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 Munstergeleen a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Munstergeleen comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Munstergeleen?
In Munstergeleen the police recorded 106 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Munstergeleen calculated?
Munstergeleen scores 8.4 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 Munstergeleen 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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