neighbourhood in Vlissingen
Kern Oost-Souburg West
2,105 residents · postal code 4388 · Part of Oost-Souburg, Vlissingen
Everything close by, little to spend
Six in ten recorded offences in Kern Oost-Souburg West are property crime, well over double the national level for that category. Violence stays below the median, as does vandalism. This is the profile of a place where things disappear, not one where you would rather stay indoors after dark — and the 4.5 for safety should be read that way.
The 8.7 for amenities is high for a village core, and the reason is the station seven hundred metres away. That carries real weight in the pillar, helped by a supermarket, GP and restaurant all within six hundred metres.
Wealth & income lags at 3.5. Property values sit far below the median and social assistance well above the national level, while the income spread stays close to the middle. Nearly three in ten residents are over sixty-five.
- no. 9,510 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 19 of 36 in Vlissingen
How Kern Oost-Souburg West scores
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Is Kern Oost-Souburg West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Oost-Souburg West comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kern Oost-Souburg West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 109 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 Oost-Souburg West has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+29%
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
1.9 — 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
5,343 — far 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 Oost-Souburg West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kern Oost-Souburg West comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kern Oost-Souburg West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Oost-Souburg West?
In Kern Oost-Souburg West the police recorded 109 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Oost-Souburg West calculated?
Kern Oost-Souburg West scores 4.5 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 Oost-Souburg West 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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