neighbourhood in Sittard-Geleen
Sittard-Centrum
3,690 residents · postal code 6131 · Part of Sittard, Sittard-Geleen
Everything close by, safety lags
Sittard-Centrum has the crime figures of a nightlife centre, and the heavy variant at that. The total sits four times above the national median, and that is not down to one type: property offences run more than four times as high, violence more than six times, vandalism three times and burglary three times. Everything points the same way, and the safety pillar sinks to a 2.5.
The town-centre function shows in the residents too: two thirds of households are single-person and the share of children under fifteen is small. Vacancy runs almost three times the national rate, which in a centre with shop premises is less surprising than the figure suggests, but it does drag the wealth pillar down with it. What remains is a 9.3 for amenities: everything, station included, is within a kilometre.
- no. 12,952 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 36 of 36 in Sittard-Geleen
How Sittard-Centrum scores
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Is Sittard-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sittard-Centrum comes out at 99 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sittard-Centrum is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 632 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
Sittard-Centrum has strikingly few children under 15: 6%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–156%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
66% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,574 — 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 Sittard-Centrum a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sittard-Centrum comes out at 99 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Sittard-Centrum 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 Sittard-Centrum?
In Sittard-Centrum the police recorded 632 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (99 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 Sittard-Centrum calculated?
Sittard-Centrum scores 2.6 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 Sittard-Centrum 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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