neighbourhood in Terneuzen
Kern Sas van Gent
3,590 residents · postal code 4551 · Part of Kern Sas van Gent, Terneuzen
Plenty of space, less prosperity
The railway station is almost thirty-eight kilometres from Kern Sas van Gent, a distance most Dutch neighbourhoods never face. Shop, GP and school are all within a kilometre here, so the 5.8 for amenities says more about the absence of rail than about the absence of daily life.
Wealth & income comes out at 2.8 and there is nothing to soften: property value is less than half the national median, higher incomes are rare, lower incomes well represented, the social assistance rate a multiple of the Dutch middle, and vacancy well above it too. For a core this size that last figure signals more than chance.
The safety figures all point the same way: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism each sit above the median.
- no. 12,815 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 34 of 36 in Terneuzen
How Kern Sas van Gent scores
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Is Kern Sas van Gent a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Sas van Gent comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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, 160 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 Sas van Gent looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,810 — 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 Sas van Gent a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Sas van Gent comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Kern Sas van Gent?
In Kern Sas van Gent the police recorded 160 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 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 Sas van Gent calculated?
Kern Sas van Gent scores 2.6 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 Sas van Gent 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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