neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom
De Markiezaten
2,240 residents · postal code 4616 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-West, Bergen op Zoom
School close by, shops further off
De Markiezaten was built almost entirely after 2000 and it shows in everything: children live in more than forty per cent of the households, almost a quarter of residents are under fifteen, and the primary school is three hundred metres away. That becomes a 9.9 for families.
The 7.3 for wealth & income is less clear-cut than it looks. The share of high incomes runs at more than one and a half times the national rate and social assistance at just over half the median, but property values barely differ from the middle and vacancy sits exactly on it. This is a comfortable area with no extremes in the bricks.
What is missing are the everyday amenities: supermarket and GP are both more than a kilometre away, the station almost three. Hence the 5.8. In a district laid out new from the ground up, the shops have not yet followed the school.
- no. 1,067 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom
How De Markiezaten scores
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Is De Markiezaten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Markiezaten comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 44 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
De Markiezaten has strikingly many children under 15: 23%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–257%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,790 — 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 De Markiezaten a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Markiezaten comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in De Markiezaten?
In De Markiezaten the police recorded 44 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 De Markiezaten calculated?
De Markiezaten scores 9.4 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 De Markiezaten 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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