The districts of Simpelveld
Simpelveld has 10,265 residents (2026), spread across 2 districts and 9 neighbourhoods.
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Simpelveld averages 5.3, which puts the municipality above 37% of Dutch neighbourhoods. Safety lifts that grade with 7.3; wealth and income hold it back at 3.9. The highest neighbourhood grades sit in Molsberg-Rodeput (6.9), the lowest in Baneheide (3.5). That is 3.4 points of difference inside one municipality.
Key figures for Simpelveld
- residents
- 10,265
- districts
- 2
- neighbourhoods
- 9
- km² of land
- 16
How Simpelveld scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 261 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Simpelveld →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Simpelveld →
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
Simpelveld has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,351 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Simpelveld, weighted by population.
Strongest neighbourhoods
The best neighbourhoods in Simpelveld →Molsberg-Rodeput
Simpelveld
Hulsveld
Simpelveld
Bocholtz
Simpelveld
Verspreide huizen
Simpelveld
Bocholtzerheide
Simpelveld
Huls
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Weakest neighbourhoods
The worst and the safest districts of Simpelveld
The worst districts of Simpelveld are in one ranking, the safest in the other. Both are built on registered crimes per 1,000 people present, not on reputation.
- The worst and most dangerous areas of Simpelveld: the neighbourhoods with the most registered crime.
- The safest areas of Simpelveld: the same measurement, the other end of the list.
- All rankings for Simpelveld →
Other rankings
The 2 districts of Simpelveld with a grade
Sorted by total grade