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Living in Mamelis

The population is growing about as fast as in Vaals. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Vaals.

60 residents, 27 homes, Data: CBS, Politie, Kiesraad, Kadaster

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01 · Prices & homes

Homes cost more than the Vaals average.

The average WOZ value in Mamelis is €384,000, 61% higher than in Vaals (€238,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 25%, against a rise of 37% in Vaals. 70% of the homes are owner-occupied, 26 percentage points more than in Vaals (44%).

Key figures
  • Average WOZ value
    €384,000
    61% higher than Vaals (€238,000)
  • Rise in WOZ value since 2021
    +25%
    lower than Vaals (+37%)
  • More figures
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    70%
    26 percentage points higher than Vaals (44%)
  • Social housing
    0%
    27 percentage points lower than Vaals (27%)
  • Private rent
    30%
    3 percentage points higher than Vaals (27%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    81%
    29 percentage points higher than Vaals (52%)
  • Built 1965–1974
    4%
    15 percentage points lower than Vaals (19%)
  • Built 1945–1964
    33%
    15 percentage points higher than Vaals (18%)
  • Built 2016 and later
    4%
    7 percentage points lower than Vaals (11%)

WOZ value per year

The average WOZ value rose 25% between 2021 and 2025, to €384,000.

Average WOZ value, 2025
€384,00061% above Vaals
  • +25% since 2021
  • Vaals +37%
Explanation

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

Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€483 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)

€483/ month

Typical home here, before mortgage and energy

  • 246 m² · measured buurt average
  • WOZ €384,000 · average here
Levies you'll be billed€148NL median
  • Property tax (OZB)€43€34
  • Water board levy€43–
  • Waste levy€36€27
  • Sewage levy€26€22
Costs to set aside€335
  • Maintenance reserve€313–
  • Buildings insurance€22–

Model estimates, not bills.

For this home, Vaals's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 314th of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.

cheapestdearest

Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.

Explanation
  • The home: one typical home of 246 m² (measured average in this buurt) with the average WOZ value here, €384,000.
  • Levies: Vaals's own OZB, sewage and waste rates for 2026. The water board levy uses national average rates.
  • Set aside: maintenance at 0.85% and buildings insurance at 0.06% a year of the rebuild cost (€1,800 per m²).
  • NL median: what the same home would pay in the middle gemeente. Gemeenten where a regional body collects the waste levy are left out.
  • Not included: mortgage and energy. These are estimates, not actual bills.

Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026

Dwelling value ladder

Mamelis has the 4th-lowest WOZ value of the 8 buurten in Vijlen-Lemiers.

Netherlands€398,000
Vaals€238,000
Vijlen-Lemiers€340,000
Wolfhaag€496,000
Raren€444,000
Harles€430,000
Holset€427,000
Mamelis€384,000

Vijlen€333,000
Lemiers€271,000
Explanation

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)

WOZ value and age structure

Here: €384,000 average WOZ value.

ValueDwellingsAged 65+
Mamelis384,00027–
Vijlen333,000609–
Harles430,00031–
Lemiers271,000365–
Holset427,00076–
Raren444,00089–
Wolfhaag496,00068–
Verspreide huizen Cottessen-Camerig313,00067–
Explanation

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)

Dwellings by ownership

The largest category is owner-occupied, at 70% of dwellings.

  • Owner-occupied70%
  • Private rent30%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by type

81% of the dwelling stock is single-family homes.

  • Single-family homes81%
  • Multi-family homes19%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by build period

59% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 18% in the municipality of Vaals.

  • Before 194559.3%
  • 1945-196433.3%
  • 1965-19743.7%
  • 2016 and later3.7%
Explanation

Based on 27 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

02 · Safety

Too few residents for a rate per resident: these are counts.

Mamelis has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 5 crimes were registered, against 5 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.

Key figures
  • Registered crimes, 2025
    5
    about the same as 5 in 2021
  • Home burglary
    0
    2023–2025

Registered crime per year

5 crimes were registered in Mamelis in 2025 (5 in 2021).

Registered crimes, 2025
5
  • same as 5 in 2021
Explanation

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

Crime by category

The largest category in Mamelis is 'Vandalism and public order': 2 in 2025.

  • Vandalism and public order2
  • Traffic2
  • Theft and burglary1
  • Violence and threats0
  • Fraud and scams0
  • Environmental0
  • Other and withheld0
Explanation

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

Traffic accidents by outcome

In 2024, police in Mamelis registered 6 traffic accidents, of which 1 with injury and none fatal.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
FatalInjuryMaterial damage only
Explanation

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

03 · Living environment

Green space is below the Vaals average.

Agricultural land is the largest land use in Mamelis, covering 89% of the area, against 55% in Vaals. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 2% of the area, 32 percentage points below the 34% in Vaals.

Key figures
  • Green (parks, sport, nature)
    2%
    32 percentage points lower than Vaals (34%)
  • Agriculture, share of the area
    89%
    34 percentage points higher than Vaals (55%)
  • Forest and nature, share of the area
    2%
    29 percentage points lower than Vaals (31%)
  • Recreation, share of the area
    0%
    3 percentage points lower than Vaals (3%)

Land use

2% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 34% in the municipality of Vaals.

  • Traffic2.4%
  • Built-up5.9%
  • Agriculture89.4%
  • Forest and nature2.4%
Explanation

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

Distance to amenities

A daycare lies here at an average road distance of 1500 m.

DistanceValue
Large supermarket4,500 m–
GP practice4,000 m–
Primary school1,600 m–
Daycare1,500 m–
Large supermarkets–0
GP practices–0
Daycares–0
Explanation

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

04 · Residents

The population is growing about as fast as the Vaals average.

Mamelis has 60 inhabitants (2026), or 74 per km² (83% lower than in Vaals). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Vaals was 73%, 5 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 25% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.

Key figures
  • Population growth since 2021
    +0%
    about the same as Vaals (+0%)
  • Turnout, municipality of Vaals
    73%
    5 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (78%)
  • More figures
  • Growth of the dwelling stock
    +0%
    about the same as Vaals (+1%)
  • Aged 45 to 65
    25%
    3 percentage points lower than Vaals (28%)
  • Never married
    54%
    10 percentage points higher than Vaals (44%)
  • Dutch origin
    83%
    39 percentage points higher than Vaals (44%)
  • PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid), share of the vote
    25%
    8 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (17%)

Population per year

The population held steady between 2021 and 2026, at 60.

Residents, 2026
60
  • +0% since 2021
  • Vaals +0%

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Density

With 74 residents per km², this buurt is 83% less densely populated than the municipality of Vaals.

Residents per km²74
Dwellings per km²31.8

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Births and deaths per 1,000 residents

In 2025, almost no children were born; almost no one died.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
BirthsDeaths

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Residents by age group

25% of residents are between 45 and 65.

  • 0 to 1510
  • 15 to 255
  • 25 to 4510
  • 45 to 6515
  • 65 to 8015
  • 80 and over5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Marital status

54% of residents are never married.

  • Never married35
  • Married30

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Residents by country of origin

83% of residents have Dutch origin.

  • Netherlands50
  • Europe (excluding the Netherlands)5
  • Outside Europe5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Parliamentary election

These figures are for the whole municipality of Vaals; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 73% of eligible voters in Vaals voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 25% of the valid votes.

Municipality of VaalsThe Netherlands
D66
13.2%
16.9%
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)
24.8%
16.7%
VVD
11.6%
14.2%
GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
13.9%
12.8%
CDA
12.7%
11.8%
JA21
5.2%
5.9%
Forum voor Democratie
4.8%
4.5%
BBB
3.9%
2.6%
Other
9.8%
14.4%
Explanation

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

05 · More figures

More figures

20% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 4 percentage points more than in Vaals (16%).

Key figures
  • Cars not on petrol (2025)
    25%
    9 percentage points higher than Vaals (16%)
  • Change in cars not on petrol since 2021
    0 pp
    lower than Vaals (+6 pp)
  • Residential, share of addresses
    87%
    3 percentage points higher than Vaals (84%)
  • Healthcare, share of addresses
    3%
    3 percentage points higher than Vaals (0%)
  • Lodging, share of addresses
    10%
    3 percentage points higher than Vaals (7%)
  • Private rent
    30%
    16 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (14%)
  • Multi-family dwellings
    19%
    18 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (37%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    81%
    18 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (63%)

Passenger cars by fuel type

25% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 16% in the municipality of Vaals (2025).

  • Petrol75%
  • Other fuel (diesel, LPG, electric etc.)25%
Explanation

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

Share on other fuel per year

The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 25% to 25% between 2021 and 2025.

Share on other fuel, 2025
25%9 percentage points above Vaals (16%)
  • +0 pp since 2021
  • Vaals +6 pp
Explanation

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

Vehicles by kind

In 2025, 25 passenger cars and 0 motorcycles were registered here.

Passenger cars25
Motorcycles0
Explanation

At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Addresses by building use

87% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (10%).

  • Residential87.1%
  • Retail3.2%
  • Assembly3.2%
  • Healthcare3.2%
  • Industrial3.2%
  • Lodging9.7%
  • Other3.2%
Explanation

Based on 31 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

Biggest difference from the Netherlands

74 residents per km²: 86% less densely populated than the Dutch average.

This areaThe Netherlands
  • Residents per km²74
  • Private rent30%
  • Multi-family dwellings19%
  • Single-family dwellings81%
  • Owner-occupied dwellings70%
Explanation

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

06 · Nearby areas

Other neighbourhoods in Vaals

Other neighbourhoods in Vaals
Wolfhaag135€496,000–
Raren160€444,000–
Harles55€430,000–
Holset135€427,000–
Vijlen1,240€333,0009

Sources: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026, Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01, CBS proximity statistics 2025, CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025, BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024, Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025, CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022, Municipal levies + CBS 2026. Figures describe the whole neighbourhood.

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