neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom

Warande-Oost

3,300 residents · postal code 4624 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-Oost, Bergen op Zoom

Bottom 23% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

Warande-Oost places a 9.2 for families next to a 2.6 for safety, and those are this neighbourhood's two extremes. The primary school is three hundred metres away, closer than almost anywhere.

That safety score comes with no mitigation: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism are all four well above the national median, theft and vandalism at more than double. The total number of reported offences is well over twice the middle.

What a reader will not expect here is the greenery. Greenery in the surrounding area is above the national median and the tree canopy around three times the median, putting the quiet & nature pillar at 6.5 — the only pillar besides families above the middle here. The wealth & income pillar does exactly the opposite, with a property value far below the national one and a social assistance rate a multiple above it.

no. 10,077 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 26 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom

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Is Warande-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

51.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.2 per 1,000

Property crime

21.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

6.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 226 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

0.6 km

Train station

1.7 km

Restaurant

1.0 km

Hospital

0.7 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

3.2 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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

€ 276,000

Welfare recipients

42.4 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

50%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

38%

Social housing

51%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

57%

Built after 2000

17%

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

3,357 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

60%

Trees nearby

26%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,035

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

0.3 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Warande-Oost has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4519%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+31%
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
43% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,357 — 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 Warande-Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Warande-Oost comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Warande-Oost 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 Warande-Oost?

In Warande-Oost the police recorded 226 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (52 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 Warande-Oost calculated?

Warande-Oost scores 4.2 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 Warande-Oost 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.