neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom
Meilust Noord
2,450 residents · postal code 4614 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-Noord, Bergen op Zoom
Everything close by, little to spend
Almost four in ten residents of Meilust Noord are 65 or older, and yet the families pillar stands at an 8.1. That is not a contradiction: that pillar mainly measures how far away schooling and childcare are, and the primary school here is four hundred metres away.
The safety figure of 5.9 sits lower than the total number of reported offences suggests, because that total is exactly on the national median. The cause is burglary, at more than three times the Dutch average; violence and theft stay below it. The 7.9 for quiet & nature is the neighbourhood's strongest figure, with a tree canopy more than twice the median and greenery in the surroundings above the national level.
- no. 2,667 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom
How Meilust Noord scores
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Is Meilust Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meilust Noord comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 73 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
Meilust Noord has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 39%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+39%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,322 — 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 Meilust Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meilust Noord comes out at 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Meilust Noord?
In Meilust Noord the police recorded 73 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (24 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 Meilust Noord calculated?
Meilust Noord scores 8.5 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 Meilust Noord 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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