The Toilet-Friendliest Municipality of Limburg is Roermond

June 12, 2023
‍

On Saturday, November 19, 2022, it was World Toilet Day. On this day, attention is paid to the importance of good sanitation and access to clean and safe toilets for all.

In the Netherlands, there is work to be done because according to recent research has shown that one in five people regularly stay home because of the lack of toilets. It is therefore safe to say that this is a social problem. To draw attention to this problem on World Toilet Day we annually make the well-known ranking of "the most toilet-friendly municipality of the Netherlands" is announced.

Not only on World Toilet Day should attention be paid to (the solution of) this social problem. As far as we are concerned, this should always be on the agenda. That is why we zoom in on one of our 12 provinces every month on our website, giving insight into how the municipalities within that province are doing. Would you also like to be the first to receive this data in your mailbox every month? Sign up for the newsletter!

We are going down the provinces not in alphabetical order, but by the best municipality of the worst province to be found. This month we are zooming in on the province of Limburg

Province of Groningen - Municipality of Groningen (124) - December 2022
Province of Flevoland - Municipality of Noordoostpolder (90) - January 2023
Province of Gelderland - Municipality of Harderwijk (16) - February 2023
Province of Overijssel - Municipality of Losser (11) - March 2023
Province of Drenthe - Municipality of Assen (10) - April 2023
Province of North Brabant -Municipality of Vught (7) - May 2023
Province of Limburg - Municipality of Roermond (6)- June 2023
Province of South Holland -Municipality of Rotterdam (5) - July 2023
Province of North Holland - Municipality of Alkmaar (4) - August 2023
Province of Friesland - Municipality of Schiermonnikoog (3) - September 2023
Province of Utrecht - Municipality of Utrecht (2) - October 2023
Province of Zeeland - Municipality of Veere (1) - November 2023

Limburg municipalities and number of inhabitants per toilet

The most toilet-friendly municipality in the province of Limburg is the municipality of Roermond. With a total of 722 points, they managed to secure 1st place.

In order to paint a vivid and clear picture of the need for more toilets for the municipalities within the province of Limburg, we have made a breakdown of the number of inhabitants per available toilet for each municipality. We want to emphasize that visitors and tourists to the municipality are not included here at
.

For example, even in the best scoring municipality in this province (municipality of Limburg), a total of 883 residents have to share one public/open toilet, with a total of 67 toilets. In the least scoring municipality (municipality of Voerendaal), there are no toilets at all. There is plenty of room for improvement! The number of people who have to share a toilet is 1 of the 6 indicators on which the national ranking is based.
‍

‍Theranking of the province of Limburg

We have listed the full rankings of municipalities within the province of Limburg for you below and whether they have increased or decreased in the province compared to last year.

For a full view of the table, it is best to turn your mobile in landscape or look at it on a desktop.

Location & municipality	(+/-)	Toilets	Residents on 1 toilet
1. Roermond	0	67	883
2. Valkenburg aan de Geul	1	9	1.796
3. Beesel	1	11	1.219
4. Venray	1	31	1.418
5. Nederweert	1	13	1.333
6. Weert	0	22	2.288
7. Vaals	0	5	2.027
8. Maastricht	2	44	2.753
9. Gulpen-Wittem	1	6	2.363
10. Maasgouw	1	12	2.002
11. Echt-Susteren	0	13	2.441
12. Heerlen	6	37	2.347
13. Mook and Middelaar	0	3	2.663
14. Horst aan de Maas	2	15	2.869
15. Bergen (L.).	1	6	2.184
16. Venlo	2	30	3.405
17. Peel and Maas	2	17	2.605
18. Leudal	1	9	3.992
19. Simpelveld	0	2	5.213
20. Kerkrade	0	4	11.331
21. Brook	0	3	5.272
22. Landgraaf	0	7	5.289
23. Sittard-Geleen	1	20	4.586
24. Gennep	1	5	3.447
25. Stein	0	5	4.961
26. Beekdaelen	2	6	5.987
27. Roerdalen	1	6	3.426
28. Eijsden-Margraten	1	3	8.619
29. Brunssum	2	3	9.225
30. Meerssen	0	1	18.581
31. Voerendaal	0	0

Room for improvement

Nationally, the municipality of Roermond, with 722 points , was in 6th position out of a total of 344 municipalities in the Netherlands at that time. Measured against the 1,000 points that can be achieved, there is still plenty of room for improvement.

With a few simple steps it is possible for every municipality to finish even higher in the national ranking in the coming year. There are more than enough achievable opportunities for all municipalities to become more toilet-friendly and thus not only more inclusive, but also more welcoming.
‍

These include:

1. Make toilets at municipal locations public for passersby.
2. Installation of public (seasonal) restrooms in high-traffic locations.
3. Local businesses are asking if their restrooms can be made public for passersby.
4. Making restrooms clearly findable by becoming a partner of HogeNood and notifying restrooms and keeping track of dates in the HogeNood CMS, placing signs at
   location leading to the restroom, and placing stickers at restroom locations themselves to provide additional designation.  
5. Keeping a sustainable toilet policy so that not only now, but also in the future, having sufficient hygienic toilets within the
   municipality are ensured.

Also become a toilet-friendly municipality? Then get in touch.

The complete ranking of toilet-friendly municipalities of the Netherlands 2022

For those who want to discover where their own municipality ended up, we have the complete ranking of all 344 for World Toilet Day 2022 also as an interesting article. In it you can read how the list came about and how many points each municipality managed to achieve in 2022. There is also the map which provides insight into the proximity of all notified toilets in the HogeNood app.

Monthly updates on each province via the newsletter

From now on, we will publish a monthly article focusing on one of our 12 provinces. Always know that you will be the first to be informed about the most toilet-friendly municipality of each province? Then sign up for the newsletter! That way you can assure yourself
that you will get the latest list in your inbox as soon as it is put online!

Note: the dates used in this article is a snapshot of World Toilet Day 2022, changes may have occurred in the interim.