neighbourhood in Borsele
Kern 's-Gravenpolder
4,460 residents · postal code 4431 · Part of 's-Gravenpolder, Borsele
Everything for children close by, thinner wallets
Only wealth & income clearly lags in Kern 's-Gravenpolder, at a 4.4, while amenities and families come out well above the national median. That is only partly a story about poverty. The social assistance rate is close to the median and vacancy is below it, but property values stay under the national median and the highest income group is thinner here than average. Because property value determines almost four tenths of that pillar, it drags the score down on its own.
The safety score of 7.9 comes mainly from property offences running at less than half the national level. Only burglary rises above the median.
More than four in ten households have children and the primary school is around the corner. Those two together carry the 8.3 for families, a score that in this village really is about children and not only about distances.
- no. 3,828 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 30 in Borsele
How Kern 's-Gravenpolder scores
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Is Kern 's-Gravenpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern 's-Gravenpolder comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern 's-Gravenpolder 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, 73 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
Kern 's-Gravenpolder has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+20%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,805 — 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 's-Gravenpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern 's-Gravenpolder comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern 's-Gravenpolder 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 's-Gravenpolder?
In Kern 's-Gravenpolder the police recorded 73 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 's-Gravenpolder calculated?
Kern 's-Gravenpolder 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 Kern 's-Gravenpolder 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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