neighbourhood in Medemblik
Wervershoof Oost
1,855 residents · postal code 1693 · Part of Wervershoof, Medemblik
Safe, but not spacious
Wervershoof Oost is a neighbourhood that lands almost exactly on the national average for wealth & income: property value is a hair from the median, vacancy sits precisely on it, and the two income groups each deviate by a single point. And yet the score is a 5.7 — the national median simply produces a middling figure, even where social assistance is lower than average.
Safety, by contrast, is pronounced: a 9.4, with all four offence types below the national level and violence at less than half of it. The railway station is almost seven kilometres away, but everyday amenities are close; the families pillar reaches a 7.2 with the school five hundred metres away.
- no. 2,850 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 51 in Medemblik
How Wervershoof Oost scores
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Is Wervershoof Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wervershoof Oost comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wervershoof Oost 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, 31 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 Wervershoof Oost looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
36% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,545 — around the 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 Wervershoof Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wervershoof Oost comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Wervershoof Oost 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 Wervershoof Oost?
In Wervershoof Oost the police recorded 31 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 Wervershoof Oost calculated?
Wervershoof Oost scores 8.4 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 Wervershoof Oost 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 Medemblik
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Medemblik.
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