neighbourhood in Terneuzen

Kern Hoek

2,265 residents · postal code 4542 · Part of Kern Hoek, Terneuzen

Bottom 24% in the Netherlands

Plenty of space, less prosperity

The supermarket, the GP and the primary school in Kern Hoek are all three within six hundred metres. Even so the amenities figure stops at 5.8, and that is down to the two that lie far away: the nearest railway station is almost thirty kilometres off, a restaurant four. Anyone doing the daily shopping here has everything at hand; anyone wanting to leave without a car does not.

The weak spot is the wealth & income pillar, a 3.4. All four components point the same way: property values are around half the national middle, social assistance runs at more than one and a half times the median, and the share of high incomes falls below it. Vacancy comes on top of that, at a tenth of addresses more than double the national rate — in a place where more than seventy per cent of homes are owner-occupied, that is a figure about the market rather than about the residents.

Against it stands a 7.5 for quiet & nature, carried by greenery and water well above the median and a noise level that barely differs from it.

no. 10,058 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 12 of 36 in Terneuzen

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Is Kern Hoek a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kern Hoek 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.

Total crime

18.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.7 per 1,000

Property crime

3.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 46 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

28.4 km

Restaurant

4.0 km

Hospital

8.0 km

Café

5.6 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 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

€ 215,000

Welfare recipients

13.2 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

10%

Owner-occupied

71%

Social housing

12%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

90%

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

2,379 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

70%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

413

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

0.6 km

Households with children

30%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

7.7 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Kern Hoek looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4522%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,379 — 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 Kern Hoek a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kern Hoek 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 Kern Hoek?

In Kern Hoek the police recorded 46 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 Kern Hoek calculated?

Kern Hoek scores 4.2 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 Kern Hoek 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.