neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom

Het Fort

1,985 residents · postal code 4615 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-Oude stad en omgeving, Bergen op Zoom

Bottom 7% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Het Fort shares the old town's advantage of address: station, supermarket and restaurant are all within two kilometres, and the amenities pillar reaches 8.5. Beneath it sits 3.3 for safety, and it is different in kind from what a busy centre usually shows.

It is not only property crime that is above the national middle here. Violence is too, at more than one and a half times the median, and so is burglary. So this is not a neighbourhood where only bicycles disappear; recorded violence really is higher here than average.

The wealth & income pillar stays at 3.0. Property values are well below the national median and the social assistance rate is many times the Dutch middle. Only vacancy barely differs. Anyone buying here is paying for the location, not for the neighbourhood figures.

no. 12,282 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 33 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom

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Is Het Fort a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Fort comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Fort 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.

Total crime

37.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

16.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.4 per 1,000

In 2025, 100 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

0.5 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.9 km

Motorway ramp

2.1 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 249,000

Welfare recipients

30.2 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

44%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

51%

Social housing

41%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

81%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

8,298 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

38%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,867

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.7 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Het Fort has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4530%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,298 — 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 Het Fort a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Het Fort comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Het Fort 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 Het Fort?

In Het Fort the police recorded 100 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Het Fort calculated?

Het Fort scores 3.0 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 Het Fort 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.