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The population is growing, while it shrinks in Heerlen. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Heerlen, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Molenberg is €228,000, 7% higher than in Heerlen (€214,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 80%, against a rise of 74% in Heerlen. 39% of the homes are owner-occupied, 8 percentage points less than in Heerlen (47%).
The average WOZ value rose 80% between 2014 and 2025, to €228,000.
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: ~€272 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Heerlen's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 251st 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
Molenberg has the 8th-highest WOZ value of the 23 wijken in the municipality of Heerlen.
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: €228,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molenberg | 228,000 | 2,328 | – |
| Maria Gewanden - Terschuren | 215,000 | 2,120 | – |
| Mariarade | 214,000 | 1,766 | – |
| Hoensbroek - De Dem | 173,000 | 3,961 | – |
| Nieuw Lotbroek | 223,000 | 2,246 | – |
| De Koumen | 226,000 | 12 | – |
| Vrieheide - De Stack | 179,000 | 2,697 | – |
| Heerlerheide - Passart | 171,000 | 3,054 | – |
| Heksenberg | 207,000 | 1,500 | – |
| Schrieversheide | 422,000 | 43 | – |
| Rennemig - Beersdal | 202,000 | 2,393 | – |
| Zeswegen-Nieuw Husken | 199,000 | 1,746 | – |
| Schandelen - Grasbroek | 187,000 | 2,793 | – |
| Meezenbroek-Schaesbergerveld | 189,000 | 3,367 | – |
| Heerlen-Centrum | 216,000 | 3,839 | – |
| Eikenderveld | 168,000 | 1,470 | – |
| Woonboulevard - Ten Esschen | 393,000 | 72 | – |
| Welten-Benzenrade | 295,000 | 2,075 | – |
| Bekkerveld - Aarveld | 260,000 | 1,537 | – |
| Caumerveld-Douve Weien | 277,000 | 2,823 | – |
| Heerlerbaan - Centrum | 169,000 | 2,301 | – |
| Heerlerbaan - Schil | 323,000 | 2,623 | – |
| De Beitel | 389,000 | 29 | – |
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 social housing, at 49% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
74% 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
40% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 18% in the municipality of Heerlen.
Based on 2,358 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, 52 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Molenberg, 21% lower than in Heerlen (66). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 6%, against a rise of 13% in Heerlen. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Molenberg registered 52 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 66 in the municipality of Heerlen.
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, Molenberg registered 52 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 66 in the municipality of Heerlen.
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 Molenberg is 'Traffic': 14.2 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 10.8 in the municipality of Heerlen.
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
Home burglary 2023-2025: 2.6 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 2.3 in the municipality of Heerlen.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2024, police in Molenberg registered 16 traffic accidents, of which 3 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 60% of adults in Molenberg rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points less than in Heerlen. More adults meet the physical activity guideline (40% against 36%), more smoke (24% against 22%), more feel lonely (58% against 56%) and more report anxiety or depression (55% against 53%).
An estimated 60% 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
Molenberg has 4,865 inhabitants (2026), or 2,329 per km² (19% higher than in Heerlen). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 11%, against a fall of 1% 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 grew 11% between 2014 and 2026, to 4,865.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 2,329 residents per km², this wijk is 19% more densely populated than the municipality of Heerlen.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 8.2 children were born per 1,000 residents; 19.6 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
26% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
52% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
61% 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
Molenberg has an average of 0.9 cars per household, 10% lower than in Heerlen (1.0). 16% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), about the same as in Heerlen (16%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 165 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
16% 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
The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 13% to 16% between 2014 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, 2,160 passenger cars and 140 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
86% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (2%).
Based on 2,742 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
2,329 residents per km²: 4.3 times as densely populated as 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
| Molenbergpark | 1,640 | €334,000 | 47 |
| Dr Nolensplein en omgeving | 1,205 | €200,000 | 71 |
| Dr Schaepmanplein en omgeving | 1,970 | €176,000 | 41 |
| Schiffelerveld | 45 | – | – |