neighbourhood in Sittard-Geleen
Vrangendael
1,940 residents · postal code 6137 · Part of Overhoven, Sittard-Geleen
Everything close by, little to spend
Vrangendael is among the most heavily burdened neighbourhoods in the country, and the figures show why. The rate of social assistance is almost eight times the national level, property values are less than half the national median, and the lowest income group covers close to half of households. That produces a 2.8 for wealth & income with no component softening it.
The 2.8 for safety is just as unambiguous: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism all sit above the national middle, theft well above. So this is not a neighbourhood where one type of offence distorts the statistics.
Against that stands an 8.1 for amenities. Supermarket, GP, school and station are all close by, and the surroundings are not exceptionally hard-surfaced: the tree canopy is in fact denser than the national norm. What is missing here is not the infrastructure but what goes on inside the households.
- no. 12,335 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 29 of 36 in Sittard-Geleen
How Vrangendael scores
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Is Vrangendael a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vrangendael comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vrangendael 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, 92 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
Vrangendael has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
57% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,040 — 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 Vrangendael a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vrangendael comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vrangendael 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 Vrangendael?
In Vrangendael the police recorded 92 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Vrangendael calculated?
Vrangendael scores 2.9 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 Vrangendael 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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