neighbourhood in Terneuzen
Kern Koewacht
1,855 residents · postal code 4576 · Part of Kern Koewacht, Terneuzen
Safe streets, thinner wallets
The nearest railway station is more than forty-four kilometres from Kern Koewacht, and the GP nearly eight. Distances like that occur in only a handful of Dutch neighbourhoods. They fully explain the 4.6 for amenities, because the supermarket, the school and the restaurant are in fact right round the corner.
Set against that is the quiet. With a noise level far below the national median, more than three quarters greenery in the surroundings and more tree canopy than usual, the quiet & nature pillar comes out at 9.2 — among the fifteen hundred highest in the country.
The crime picture is favourable too: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism are all four below the national median. Living here means trading access for space, and the figures show exactly what that trade costs and returns.
- no. 5,650 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 36 in Terneuzen
How Kern Koewacht scores
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Is Kern Koewacht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Koewacht comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Koewacht 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, 22 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
Kern Koewacht has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 30%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–258%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
NL median 28%
- 65+30%
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
31% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
810 — far 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 Kern Koewacht a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Koewacht comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Koewacht 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 Kern Koewacht?
In Kern Koewacht the police recorded 22 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Koewacht calculated?
Kern Koewacht scores 6.8 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 Koewacht 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Terneuzen.
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