neighbourhood in Valkenburg aan de Geul
Valkenburg
3,510 residents · postal code 6301 · Part of : Valkenburg, Valkenburg aan de Geul
Everything close by, safety lags
The number of property offences in Valkenburg is almost three times the national median, and that single component supplies the bulk of all reports here. Violence too comes out at more than double. That is the pattern of a place with far more people present by day than live there; the report figures are calculated per resident, and that denominator is small.
Vacancy tells the same story from another angle: it is three times the national level, and together with a property value far below the middle and a social assistance rate well above it, that explains the 3.5 for wealth & income.
The population is markedly old: four in ten residents are 65 or older, single-person households are in the majority here, and fewer than six in a hundred residents are under fifteen. That is where the 3.3 for families comes from, not from the distance to school.
- no. 10,342 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 17 of 22 in Valkenburg aan de Geul
How Valkenburg scores
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Is Valkenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Valkenburg comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Valkenburg 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, 272 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
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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
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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
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Who lives here
Valkenburg has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–156%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+40%
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
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
16% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,614 — 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 Valkenburg a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Valkenburg comes out at 49 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Valkenburg 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 Valkenburg?
In Valkenburg the police recorded 272 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (49 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 Valkenburg calculated?
Valkenburg scores 4.1 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 Valkenburg 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.
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