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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Heerlen.
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De Koumen has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 56 crimes were registered, against 31 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
56 crimes were registered in De Koumen in 2025 (31 in 2021).
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200) — registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in De Koumen is 'Theft and burglary': 23 in 2025.
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200). 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 2024, police in De Koumen registered 24 traffic accidents, of which 2 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) 2024
An estimated 64% of adults in De Koumen rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points more than in Heerlen. Fewer adults report anxiety or depression (48% against 53%), fewer smoke (18% against 22%) and fewer feel lonely (53% against 56%), but more drink excessively (6% against 4%).
An estimated 64% of adults rate their own health as good, against 62% in the municipality of Heerlen (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
A primary school lies here at an average road distance of 1300 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,400 m | – |
| GP practice | 2,100 m | – |
| Primary school | 1,300 m | – |
| Daycare | 1,700 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
De Koumen has 25 inhabitants (2026), or 18 per km² (99% lower than in Heerlen). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Heerlen was 66%, 12 percentage points 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 shrank 17% between 2025 and 2026, to 25.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 18 residents per km², this buurt is 99% less densely populated than the municipality of Heerlen.
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
29% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
60% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
80% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Heerlen; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 66% of eligible voters in Heerlen 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
47% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 31 percentage points more than in Heerlen (16%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 75 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
47% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 16% in the municipality of Heerlen (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
In 2025, 160 passenger cars and 5 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
5% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (64%).
Based on 252 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
18 residents per km²: 97% less densely populated than the Dutch average.
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) 2026