neighbourhood in Vlissingen
Het Fort e.o.
680 residents · postal code 4383 · Part of Middengebied, Vlissingen
Everything close by, little to spend
Violent offences in Het Fort e.o. are recorded roughly three times as often as nationally, while theft and burglary stay below the median. That is the reverse of the ratio you would expect in an urban neighbourhood, and because violence is the heaviest component of the safety pillar, the score stalls at 5.2 despite a total that is only modestly above the median. The neighbourhood does have fewer than seven hundred residents, so a handful of reports already moves that figure.
The wealth figures leave little room for nuance. Social assistance is at almost ten times the national median and the property value at roughly half of it.
Against that stands a families score of 8.0, carried by the primary school five hundred metres away, and a quiet & nature pillar that comes out above the national median at 6.4.
- no. 8,362 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 15 of 36 in Vlissingen
How Het Fort e.o. scores
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Is Het Fort e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Fort e.o. comes out at 28 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, 21 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
Het Fort e.o. has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4528%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,053 — 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 Het Fort e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Het Fort e.o. comes out at 28 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 Het Fort e.o.?
In Het Fort e.o. the police recorded 21 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Het Fort e.o. calculated?
Het Fort e.o. scores 5.2 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 Het Fort e.o. 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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