The population is growing faster than in Maastricht. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Maastricht, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Centrum is €343,000, 10% higher than in Maastricht (€313,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 62%, against a rise of 76% in Maastricht. 22% of the homes are owner-occupied, 17 percentage points less than in Maastricht (39%).
The average WOZ value rose 62% between 2014 and 2025, to €343,000.
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: ~€262 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Maastricht's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 79th 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
Centrum has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 7 wijken in the municipality of Maastricht.
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: €343,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centrum | 343,000 | 13,170 | – |
| Buitenwijk Zuidwest | 511,000 | 4,714 | – |
| Buitenwijk West | 267,000 | 18,304 | – |
| Buitenwijk Noordwest | 301,000 | 1,064 | – |
| Buitenwijk Oost | 312,000 | 15,806 | – |
| Buitenwijk Noordoost | 315,000 | 1,304 | – |
| Buitenwijk Zuidoost | 274,000 | 11,887 | – |
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 private rent, at 55% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
84% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
57% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 24% in the municipality of Maastricht.
Based on 13,448 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, 133 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Centrum, 2.3 times as high as in Maastricht (59). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 39%, against a rise of 14% in Maastricht. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Centrum registered 133 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 59 in the municipality of Maastricht.
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, Centrum registered 133 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 59 in the municipality of Maastricht.
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 Centrum is 'Theft and burglary': 78.5 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 27.5 in the municipality of Maastricht.
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: 2.2 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 2.6 in the municipality of Maastricht.
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 Centrum registered 138 traffic accidents, of which 34 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 77% of adults in Centrum rate their own health as good, 7 percentage points more than in Maastricht. Fewer adults are overweight (32% against 46%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (62% against 50%), more report anxiety or depression (59% against 54%) and more drink excessively (11% against 7%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Centrum, covering 71% of the area, against 38% in Maastricht. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 5% of the area, 13 percentage points below the 18% in Maastricht.
An estimated 77% of adults rate their own health as good, against 70% in the municipality of Maastricht (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
5% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 18% in the municipality of Maastricht.
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
Centrum has 21,710 inhabitants (2026), or 7,880 per km² (3.5 times as high as in Maastricht). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 20%, against a rise of 3% in Maastricht. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Maastricht was 74%, 4 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 21% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 20% between 2014 and 2026, to 21,710.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 7,880 residents per km², this wijk is 3.5 times as densely populated as the municipality of Maastricht.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 4.4 children were born per 1,000 residents; 12.3 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
35% of residents are between 15 and 25.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
71% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
46% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
47% 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 Maastricht; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 74% of eligible voters in Maastricht voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 21% 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
Centrum has an average of 0.4 cars per household, 33% lower than in Maastricht (0.6). 22% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 3 percentage points more than in Maastricht (19%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 1,220 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
22% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 19% in the municipality of Maastricht (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 16% to 22% 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, 5,510 passenger cars and 255 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 retail (7%).
Based on 15,557 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
7,880 residents per km²: 15 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
| Jekerkwartier | 1,655 | €444,000 | 127 |
| Wyck | 5,525 | €406,000 | 104 |
| Kommelkwartier | 2,805 | €337,000 | 33 |
| Binnenstad | 2,335 | €326,000 | 463 |
| Statenkwartier | 4,965 | €318,000 | 78 |
| Sint Maartenspoort | 2,390 | €277,000 | 103 |
| Boschstraatkwartier | 2,030 | €236,000 | 144 |