The population is growing faster than in Echt-Susteren. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Echt-Susteren, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Berkelaar is €471,000, 43% higher than in Echt-Susteren (€330,000). Between 2024 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 9%, the same as in Echt-Susteren. 90% of the homes are owner-occupied, 19 percentage points more than in Echt-Susteren (71%).
The average WOZ value rose 9% between 2024 and 2025, to €471,000.
The WOZ value as struck on 1 January of the year before the KWB edition.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€460 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Echt-Susteren's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 207th of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.
Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.
Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026
Berkelaar has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 7 buurten in Echt.
Average WOZ value from the Netherlands down to this area, and its rank within its own group (e.g. buurten within the same wijk). Provincie is omitted: KWB publishes no province rows to average.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)
Here: €471,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkelaar | 471,000 | 115 | – |
| De Loop | 451,000 | 31 | – |
| Echt Centrum | 276,000 | 1,988 | – |
| Echt Noord | 299,000 | 1,343 | – |
| Gebroek | 489,000 | 92 | – |
| Buitengebied Berkelaar | 438,000 | 20 | – |
| Echt Zuid | 458,000 | 337 | – |
Each circle is an area: position by average WOZ value, size by dwelling count. The 65-and-over share (pct_65_plus) travels on every point but is not yet drawn as a second axis.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)
The largest category is owner-occupied, at 90% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
99% of the dwelling stock is single-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
31% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 15% in the municipality of Echt-Susteren.
Based on 116 dwellings with a registered construction year in the BAG (verblijfsobjecten whose pand has no usable bouwjaar, such as 1005 or 9999, are excluded).
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
In 2025, 11 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Berkelaar, 69% lower than in Echt-Susteren (36). Since 2024 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 59%, against a fall of 7% in Echt-Susteren. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Berkelaar registered 11 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 36 in the municipality of Echt-Susteren.
Crime is counted where it happens and divided by the number of residents, so places with many visitors — city centres, nightlife, stations — score higher.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2025, Berkelaar registered 11 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 36 in the municipality of Echt-Susteren.
Registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED. A year without a matching population figure (KWB) is left out.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in Berkelaar is 'Fraud and scams': 3.7 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 4.6 in the municipality of Echt-Susteren.
Four categories are structurally withheld at buurt level (sex offences, child pornography, child prostitution, other integrity offences); the gap with the published total is shown under 'other'.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2022, police in Berkelaar registered 1 traffic accidents, of which 1 with injury and none fatal.
Registered accidents (BRON, Rijkswaterstaat); material-damage-only accidents have not been systematically registered since roughly 2010 and are not comparable between areas. This area shows only accidents with an exactly known location (roughly 80-85% of all registered accidents); the rest is known only at street, intersection or gemeente level. The comparison with the gemeente therefore also uses only the gemeente's exactly-located accidents, which is why that figure is lower than on the gemeente's own page.
Source: BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2022
An estimated 77% of adults in Berkelaar rate their own health as good, 7 percentage points more than in Echt-Susteren. Fewer adults feel lonely (40% against 48%), fewer smoke (9% against 15%), fewer are overweight (51% against 56%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (39% against 44%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Berkelaar, covering 64% of the area, against 67% in Echt-Susteren.
An estimated 77% of adults rate their own health as good, against 70% in the municipality of Echt-Susteren (2024).
An RIVM model estimate (small-area estimation from the 2024 Health Monitor for Adults and Elderly), not a direct tabulation — even a buurt that was not itself surveyed gets an estimate. Figures cover adults aged 18 and over.
Source: RIVM/CBS Gezondheidsmonitor Volwassenen en Ouderen (kleine-gebieden-schatting) 2024
0% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 17% in the municipality of Echt-Susteren.
Every share is calculated as a percentage of the TOTAL area (land and water together, peiljaar 2022); water is therefore one of the slices itself, not a separate whole. Green is the sum of recreational terrain (parks, sport fields, allotments, day recreation) and natural terrain (forest, open natural terrain) — agricultural land is not counted as green here.
Source: CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022
A large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 1500 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,500 m | – |
| GP practice | 2,400 m | – |
| Primary school | 2,000 m | – |
| Daycare | 2,000 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| Daycares | – | 0 |
Average road distance from every address in this buurt to the nearest amenity, and the average count within 1 km — a buurt average, not a distance from one address.
Source: CBS proximity statistics 2025
Berkelaar has 270 inhabitants (2026), or 982 per km² (3.1 times as high as in Echt-Susteren). Between 2024 and 2026 the population rose 4%, against a rise of 1% in Echt-Susteren. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Echt-Susteren was 77%, 1 percentage point below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 30% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 4% between 2024 and 2026, to 270.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 982 residents per km², this buurt is 3.1 times as densely populated as the municipality of Echt-Susteren.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, almost no children were born; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
35% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
47% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
93% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
56% of residents have a higher professional (hbo) or university (wo) education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Echt-Susteren; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 77% of eligible voters in Echt-Susteren voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 30% of the valid votes.
Official election result (Kiesraad), top 8 parties by national vote count plus 'Other'; share of valid votes. A voter may vote at any polling station in their own gemeente; there is therefore no reliable buurt- or wijk-level result. This figure is the whole gemeente's own result.
Source: Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025
Berkelaar has an average of 1.9 cars per household, 46% higher than in Echt-Susteren (1.3). 29% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 10 percentage points more than in Echt-Susteren (19%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
29% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 19% in the municipality of Echt-Susteren (2025).
CBS splits passenger cars into 'petrol' and 'other fuel' only. That second category bundles diesel, LPG, electric (including hybrid), hydrogen, alcohol, LNG and CNG together — CBS publishes no separate electric-car count per buurt, wijk or gemeente, so this is not the same as an 'electric share'.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 22% to 29% between 2024 and 2025.
See the 'Passenger cars by fuel type' card for what 'other fuel' covers — this is not the share of electric cars.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
In 2025, 210 passenger cars and 35 motorcycles were registered here.
At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
93% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (5%).
Based on 125 verblijfsobjecten in use. An object with several registered uses (e.g. a flat above a shop) is counted under each of them, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
1% multi-family dwellings, against 37% nationally.
The 5 characteristics that differ most from the national average, ranked by log ratio (so a halving and a doubling count as equally different); the shown percentage is the ordinary difference against the Netherlands.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
| Gebroek | 210 | €489,000 | 9 |
| Echt Zuid | 845 | – | – |
| Businesspark Midden-Limburg | 0 | – | – |
| Buitengebied Aasterberg | 0 | – | – |
| Buitengebied Berkelaar | 55 | – | – |
| Buitengebied Ophoven | 0 | – | – |
| Buitengebied Gebroek | 10 | – | – |
| Buitengebied De Loop | 0 | – | – |
| Buitengebied De Berk | 5 | – | – |
| Ophoven | 20 | – | – |
| Echt Noord | 2,920 | – | – |
| Echt Centrum | 3,370 | – | – |
| De Loop | 65 | – | – |
| De Berk | 35 | – | – |
| Aasterberg | 35 | – | – |