neighbourhood in Bergen op Zoom
Warande-West
2,160 residents · postal code 4624 · Part of Bergen op Zoom-Oost, Bergen op Zoom
Everything close by, safety lags
Warande-West stands at 2.6 for safety, and unlike many neighbourhoods with a low score there is nothing to qualify here: violence, burglary, property crime and vandalism all four sit above the national middle, violence at more than three times it. With over two thousand residents these are too many records to put down to chance.
The wealth & income pillar points just as unambiguously one way. Property value stays far below the median, households with a high income are scarcer here than nationally and those with a low income more numerous, and the social assistance rate is almost eight times the national one.
Against that sits an 8.9 for families. That pillar consists for almost two thirds of distances to school and childcare, and the primary school here is four hundred metres away — that is the explanation, not a judgement on what it is like to be a child here.
- no. 11,239 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 28 of 36 in Bergen op Zoom
How Warande-West scores
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Is Warande-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Warande-West comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Warande-West 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.
In 2025, 132 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
Warande-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,556 — 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-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Warande-West comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Warande-West 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-West?
In Warande-West the police recorded 132 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (45 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-West calculated?
Warande-West scores 3.6 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-West 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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