neighbourhood in Middelburg (Z.)
Mortiere III
2,235 residents · postal code 4337 · Part of Mortiere, Middelburg (Z.)
Well-off, but not carefree
A 9.8 for wealth & income and a 4.7 for safety in the same neighbourhood: that is the tension in Mortiere III. The wealth score holds on every component — high property values, no recorded social assistance, no vacancy, and more households in the top income group than is usual nationally.
The safety score comes from one kind of report. Theft and burglary are in fact below the national median here; what pulls the score down is violence, which runs more than four times as high. The other figures do not explain it.
The weakest side of daily life is distance. The supermarket and the GP are two kilometres away, and the primary school just over a kilometre — the latter also being why the families pillar stalls at a 7.1, despite nearly two thirds of households here having children.
- no. 5,231 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 25 of 52 in Middelburg (Z.)
How Mortiere III scores
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Is Mortiere III a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Mortiere III comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Mortiere III 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.
In 2025, 141 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
Mortiere III has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 7%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1523%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
3.1 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
63% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,856 — less 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 Mortiere III a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Mortiere III comes out at 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Mortiere III 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 Mortiere III?
In Mortiere III the police recorded 141 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (47 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 Mortiere III calculated?
Mortiere III scores 7.0 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 Mortiere III 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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