neighbourhood in Goeree-Overflakkee
Melissant woonkern
1,860 residents · postal code 3248 · Part of Melissant, Goeree-Overflakkee
Safe streets, thinner wallets
The supermarket, GP and primary school in Melissant are all within half a kilometre, but the nearest restaurant is four kilometres away and the railway station beyond any reasonable reach. That spread keeps the amenities pillar at 6.5 even though daily life here is arranged at close range.
The safety pillar reaches 9.1 without one category doing the work: violence, burglary, vandalism and property crime all four sit below the national middle, theft at a third of it.
Wealth & income comes out at 5.0 and that is almost entirely the property value, which stays below the national median. The income distribution barely deviates from the national picture, social assistance is only slightly above it and little stands empty. So this is not a neighbourhood with a broad bottom layer; house prices set the figure.
- no. 2,367 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 7 of 52 in Goeree-Overflakkee
How Melissant woonkern scores
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Is Melissant woonkern a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Melissant woonkern comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Melissant woonkern 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, 27 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
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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
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Who lives here
The age profile of Melissant woonkern looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
28% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,031 — 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 Melissant woonkern a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Melissant woonkern comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Melissant woonkern 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 Melissant woonkern?
In Melissant woonkern the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Melissant woonkern calculated?
Melissant woonkern scores 8.6 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 Melissant woonkern 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Goeree-Overflakkee.
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