neighbourhood in Venlo
Kern Hout-Blerick
1,760 residents · postal code 5926 · Part of Hout-Blerick, Venlo
Everything for children close by, and little room
Kern Hout-Blerick scores above the middle on four of the five pillars and sinks deep on one: a 3.9 for quiet & nature. That is not population density, which is ordinary, but noise — the level is noticeably above the national median, and greenery and tree canopy both fall short.
The families score of 9.1 holds up on both sides: the school is five hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children. Those two by no means always coincide.
What you give up here is the GP and the station: both more than two kilometres away, and that keeps the amenities pillar at 5.8. With almost eighteen hundred residents this is no hamlet but a village centre at urban density.
- no. 2,276 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 9 of 94 in Venlo
How Kern Hout-Blerick scores
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Is Kern Hout-Blerick a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Hout-Blerick comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Hout-Blerick 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, 27 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 Hout-Blerick looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6530%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,566 — 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 Hout-Blerick a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Hout-Blerick comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kern Hout-Blerick 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 Hout-Blerick?
In Kern Hout-Blerick the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Hout-Blerick calculated?
Kern Hout-Blerick scores 8.7 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 Hout-Blerick 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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