neighbourhood in Vlissingen
Paauwenburg West
2,030 residents · postal code 4384 · Part of Paauwenburg - Westduin, Vlissingen
Safe, but few children
Not a single social assistance benefit is recorded in Paauwenburg West, against almost eight per thousand residents nationally. Together with a property value above the median, a broad top income group, a thinner bottom group and little vacancy, that produces an 8.1 for wealth & income with no component pushing the other way.
The noise level is almost seven decibels below the national median, which is a large gap on this scale, and the surroundings are greener than usual. That carries the 7.2 for quiet & nature. What the neighbourhood does not have is the railway: the station is more than five kilometres away, while supermarket, doctor and primary school are within seven hundred metres. Almost a third of residents are 65 or older, well above the national figure, and for that part of the neighbourhood such a distance weighs more heavily than the score shows.
- no. 1,017 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 1 of 36 in Vlissingen
How Paauwenburg West scores
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Is Paauwenburg West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Paauwenburg West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Paauwenburg West 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, 32 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
Paauwenburg West has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4517%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+31%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,546 — around the 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 Paauwenburg West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Paauwenburg West comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Paauwenburg West 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 Paauwenburg West?
In Paauwenburg West the police recorded 32 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 Paauwenburg West calculated?
Paauwenburg West scores 9.4 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 Paauwenburg 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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