neighbourhood in Goeree-Overflakkee
Middelharnis westplaat
2,405 residents · postal code 3241 · Part of Middelharnis, Goeree-Overflakkee
Everything for children close by, and nowhere weak
Middelharnis westplaat has no weak spot. The lowest of its five pillars is a 7.0 for wealth & income, and for a neighbourhood with an overall score of 9.2 that is unusually flat; most neighbourhoods finishing this high pay for it with an outlier downwards.
The wealth & income pillar shows why that 7.0 is not a weakness: property value is above the national median, almost three in ten households are in the highest income group and the social assistance rate stays far below the national level. Only vacancy is slightly above it.
The nearest railway station is almost forty kilometres away. That costs few points here, because station and hospital together make up more than a quarter of the amenities pillar and supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within a kilometre.
- no. 1,354 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 52 in Goeree-Overflakkee
How Middelharnis westplaat scores
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Is Middelharnis westplaat a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Middelharnis westplaat comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 58 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
Middelharnis westplaat has strikingly many children under 15: 22%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1522%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6522%
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
2.6 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,254 — 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 Middelharnis westplaat a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Middelharnis westplaat comes out at 19 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Middelharnis westplaat?
In Middelharnis westplaat the police recorded 58 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Middelharnis westplaat calculated?
Middelharnis westplaat scores 9.2 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 Middelharnis westplaat 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 Goeree-Overflakkee
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Goeree-Overflakkee.
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