neighbourhood in Borsele
Kern Heinkenszand
5,045 residents · postal code 4451 · Part of Heinkenszand, Borsele
Safe, but few children
Kern Heinkenszand achieves an 8.9 for safety, and there is little noise in it: violence is counted about three times less often than nationally, and theft too stays far below it. Burglary and vandalism sit on the median — the difference amounts to a handful of reported offences a year.
The lowest figure, a 4.8 for families, stands out in a village with a primary school within a kilometre. But almost two thirds of that pillar consists of distances, and the other two — childcare and secondary education — do not appear in the table below. What is visible: relatively few children live there, and the population is strongly aged.
The amenities figure follows a familiar village pattern. Everything for daily use is close by, but the railway station is more than eight kilometres away, and that one distance keeps the figure at a 6.7.
- no. 5,326 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 30 in Borsele
How Kern Heinkenszand scores
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Is Kern Heinkenszand a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Heinkenszand comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Heinkenszand is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 91 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 Kern Heinkenszand looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,636 — 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 Kern Heinkenszand a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Heinkenszand comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Heinkenszand is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Kern Heinkenszand?
In Kern Heinkenszand the police recorded 91 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Kern Heinkenszand calculated?
Kern Heinkenszand scores 6.9 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 Kern Heinkenszand 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Borsele
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Borsele.
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