neighbourhood in Middelburg (Z.)

Damplein

1,730 residents · postal code 4331 · Part of Binnenstad, Middelburg (Z.)

Bottom 28% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Damplein is among the four hundred best-connected neighbourhoods in the Netherlands: shop, restaurant, GP and station are all a few hundred metres away. The flip side shows in the crime figures. Property offences are recorded more than twice as often as nationally, while violence and vandalism rise only slightly above the median. That is the profile of a busy place where things go missing, not of one where you would rather stay indoors after dark.

The population comes in few varieties. More than four in ten residents are 65 or over, six in ten households consist of one person and the share of children is minimal. The last of those is why the families score stays at 4.8, despite a primary school one kilometre away.

Also striking is the vacancy rate, at more than double the national level. Over a fifth of the surface is water.

no. 9,508 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 39 of 52 in Middelburg (Z.)

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Is Damplein a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Damplein comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Damplein is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

38.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

19.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 109 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.

Supermarket

0.5 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

0.7 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.0 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 330,000

Welfare recipients

17.3 per 1,000

High incomes

19%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

11%

Owner-occupied

50%

Social housing

15%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

27%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

7,077 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

32%

Trees nearby

Water share

22%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,760

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.7 µg/m³

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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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

1.0 km

Households with children

10%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Damplein has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 41%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–154%
NL median 14%
15–257%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+41%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,077 — 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 Damplein a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Damplein comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Damplein is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Damplein?

In Damplein the police recorded 109 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Damplein calculated?

Damplein scores 4.5 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 Damplein 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.