neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom
Rode Schouw
2,650 residents · postal code 4661 · Part of Halsteren, Bergen op Zoom
Good for children, with a safety question
Fewer offences are reported in Rode Schouw than in the average Dutch neighbourhood, and still the safety score is a 4.8. That is down to the mix: violence is more than twice the national level and vandalism nearly as far above it, while property crime stays well below. It is the first two that count for most.
Quiet & nature stands at 7.1, and that is no accident: the tree canopy in the immediate surroundings is more than two and a half times the national middle and the noise level is below it.
With a primary school five hundred metres away and four in ten households with children, the families pillar comes out at 9.0. Wealth & income lags behind at 6.0, with property values below the national median as the main brake.
- no. 3,821 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom
How Rode Schouw scores
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Is Rode Schouw a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rode Schouw comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 57 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 Rode Schouw looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+22%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,789 — 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 Rode Schouw a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Rode Schouw comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Rode Schouw?
In Rode Schouw the police recorded 57 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Rode Schouw calculated?
Rode Schouw scores 7.8 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 Rode Schouw 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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