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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Roerdalen.
95 residents,
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Compared with the municipality of Roerdalen · newest year available
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MERU has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 0 crimes were registered, against 1 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
0 crimes were registered in MERU in 2025 (1 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
Built-up land is the largest land use in MERU, covering 85% of the area, against 8% in Roerdalen. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 10% of the area, 29 percentage points below the 39% in Roerdalen.
10% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 39% in the municipality of Roerdalen.
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 3800 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 3,800 m | – |
| GP practice | 7,700 m | – |
| Primary school | 7,400 m | – |
| Daycare | 7,800 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
MERU has 95 inhabitants (2026), or 508 per km² (2.1 times as high as in Roerdalen). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Roerdalen was 78%, in line with the national figure. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 31% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 17% between 2021 and 2026, to 95.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 508 residents per km², this buurt is 2.1 times as densely populated as the municipality of Roerdalen.
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
42% of residents are between 65 and 80.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
75% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
60% of residents have origin outside Europe.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Roerdalen; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 78% of eligible voters in Roerdalen voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 31% 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
MERU has an average of 0.6 cars per household, 54% lower than in Roerdalen (1.3). 56% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 36 percentage points more than in Roerdalen (20%).
56% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 20% in the municipality of Roerdalen (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 50% to 56% between 2021 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, 45 passenger cars and 0 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
90% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is assembly (10%).
Based on 68 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
508 residents per km²: 6% 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
| Buitengebied Vlodrop | 135 | €451,000 | – |
| Etsberg | 150 | €365,000 | – |
| Rothenbach | 80 | €308,000 | – |
| Vlodrop | 1,945 | €284,000 | 19 |
| Vlodrop Station | 5 | – | – |