neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom
Havenkwartier
1,790 residents · postal code 4611 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-Oude stad en omgeving, Bergen op Zoom
Everything close by, little space
Amenities at 7.9, wealth & income at 3.1. Havenkwartier is central and poor. The social assistance rate here is almost eight times the national middle, nearly half of households have a low income, and property values stay far below the median.
The crime figure is well above the national middle, but its composition is worth telling. Property crime happens here more than twice as often as nationally, while violence and burglary are both below the median. That is the profile of a place where things get taken, not of a neighbourhood where you would rather stay indoors after dark.
The quiet & nature pillar comes to 3.1 because the green around it does not reach half the national middle, at a population density of more than six thousand residents per square kilometre. Space is what you give up here for the short distances.
- no. 11,686 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 31 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom
How Havenkwartier scores
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Is Havenkwartier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Havenkwartier comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Havenkwartier 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, 121 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
The age profile of Havenkwartier looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,104 — 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 Havenkwartier a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Havenkwartier comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Havenkwartier 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 Havenkwartier?
In Havenkwartier the police recorded 121 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Havenkwartier calculated?
Havenkwartier scores 3.3 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 Havenkwartier 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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