neighbourhood in Altena
Werkense polder
1,920 residents · postal code 4251 · Part of Werkendam, Altena
Everything for children close by, and little room
Half of the households in Werkense polder have children and only one in ten residents is 65 or over — a markedly young composition, and together with a primary school five hundred metres away it carries the 9.5 for families. Almost half the homes were built after 2000, which fits that age profile.
The quiet & nature pillar lags at 4.9, and that is density: noise is actually below the national median and greenery within three hundred metres above it, but the buildings stand close together and surface water is absent. Wealth & income comes out at 6.9 with property value just above the median, more households than nationally in the top income group and social assistance below it. Safety is solid at 8.2: all four categories of offence sit below the national middle.
- no. 2,359 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 58 in Altena
How Werkense polder scores
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Is Werkense polder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Werkense polder comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Werkense polder is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 34 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Werkense polder has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
50% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,199 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Werkense polder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Werkense polder comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Werkense polder is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Werkense polder?
In Werkense polder the police recorded 34 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Werkense polder calculated?
Werkense polder scores 8.6 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Werkense polder lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Altena
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Altena.
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