neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom
Noordgeest
3,610 residents · postal code 4614 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-Noord, Bergen op Zoom
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Noordgeest is in the country's best ten per cent on families, and that 9.3 rests on two things at once: the primary school is five hundred metres away and almost four in ten households have children. Such combinations are rarer than they sound.
The 4.4 for safety calls for precision. Total reported offences sit virtually on the national median, and theft is actually below it. What pulls the score down are violence, burglary and vandalism, all three above — and those are the components that weigh heaviest in this pillar. The headline figure hides what the breakdown reveals.
Wealth & income stalls at 4.3, with the social assistance rate standing out most: it runs at a multiple of the Dutch middle.
- no. 6,200 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom
How Noordgeest scores
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Is Noordgeest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noordgeest 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, 105 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 Noordgeest looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
39% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,169 — 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 Noordgeest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Noordgeest 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 Noordgeest?
In Noordgeest the police recorded 105 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 Noordgeest calculated?
Noordgeest scores 6.4 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 Noordgeest 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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