neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom
Gageldonk-Oost
4,005 residents · postal code 4623 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-Oost, Bergen op Zoom
Everything close by, safety lags
Everything to do with distance is right in Gageldonk-Oost: a 9.6 for amenities and a 9.1 for families, with supermarket, GP and school all within five hundred metres. Everything to do with money is wrong.
The social assistance rate is nearly nine times the national level, the property value far below it and the share of high incomes half the national figure. One component breaks that pattern: vacancy is actually low. On top of that, all four types of offence are above the national median, with violence and vandalism the clearest outliers — that explains the 2.8 for safety better than the overall number of reported offences does.
- no. 9,808 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 22 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom
How Gageldonk-Oost scores
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Is Gageldonk-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Gageldonk-Oost comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Gageldonk-Oost 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, 194 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
Gageldonk-Oost has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,004 — 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 Gageldonk-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Gageldonk-Oost comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Gageldonk-Oost 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 Gageldonk-Oost?
In Gageldonk-Oost the police recorded 194 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Gageldonk-Oost calculated?
Gageldonk-Oost scores 4.4 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 Gageldonk-Oost 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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