neighbourhood in Bergen (NH.)
Bergen aan Zee
420 residents · postal code 1865 · Part of Bergen aan Zee, Bergen (NH.)
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
More than half the homes in Bergen aan Zee are recorded as vacant. That is the figure of a seaside resort where many addresses are lived in only in summer, and it weighs on the wealth & income pillar despite property values almost two and a half times the national median and a population in which nobody receives social assistance.
The same seasonal traffic shows up in the offences. The total is more than twice the national middle, almost entirely property crime; violence and vandalism stay close to the median. With just over four hundred residents those numbers say little about how safe it is for the people who live there, and a good deal about how many people pass through.
The flip side of the location is distance: supermarket, GP and primary school are all five kilometres or more away, the railway station more than ten. That is where the 2.6 for families comes from, since school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar. What you get in return is the quietest setting these figures record: more than nine decibels below the national middle.
- no. 12,091 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 36 of 36 in Bergen (NH.)
How Bergen aan Zee scores
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Is Bergen aan Zee a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bergen aan Zee comes out at 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bergen aan Zee is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 57 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
Bergen aan Zee has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+33%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
293 — far less 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 Bergen aan Zee a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bergen aan Zee comes out at 59 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bergen aan Zee is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Bergen aan Zee?
In Bergen aan Zee the police recorded 57 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (59 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 Bergen aan Zee calculated?
Bergen aan Zee scores 3.1 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 Bergen aan Zee 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.
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