neighbourhood in Oudewater
Kern Oudewater
2,535 residents · postal code 3421 · Part of Oudewater, Oudewater
Everything close by, little to spend
Almost a tenth of the surface of Kern Oudewater is water, and that is the main reason quiet & nature comes out at 7.0 even though the neighbourhood is fairly densely built. There is slightly more greenery than average, and the tree canopy is exactly at the national midpoint.
The railway station is more than ten kilometres away, yet the amenities pillar still reaches 7.7: everything needed day to day is within seven hundred metres, and those components together outweigh the station.
The 6.0 for wealth & income is a mixed picture. High incomes are better represented than nationally and low ones thinner, social assistance is exactly at the midpoint, but property values stay just below it and vacancy is above the national median. On safety it is burglary and vandalism that keep the score at 6.1.
- no. 4,324 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 15 in Oudewater
How Kern Oudewater scores
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Is Kern Oudewater a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Oudewater comes out at 22 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, 81 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 Kern Oudewater looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,277 — 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 Kern Oudewater a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Oudewater comes out at 22 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 Kern Oudewater?
In Kern Oudewater the police recorded 81 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Kern Oudewater calculated?
Kern Oudewater scores 7.5 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 Kern Oudewater 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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