neighbourhood in Voorne aan Zee
Altena
1,940 residents · postal code 3223 · Part of Ravense Hoek, Voorne aan Zee
Well-off, and well out of town
Altena was built entirely after 2000 — every home. That almost explains the 9.4 for wealth & income by itself: property value is well above the national median, social assistance is absent and the share of high incomes is larger than nationally.
More than half of households have children. Even so, the families pillar comes out at 8.0 and no higher, because the primary school is a good kilometre away and school distance weighs heaviest in that pillar.
What is missing is access other than by car. The station is a good twenty-five kilometres away and that pushes the amenities pillar down to 4.4, while supermarket, GP and school are all close by. The same neighbourhood thus ranks among the country's best thousand on wealth and in its weakest quarter on access.
- no. 1,203 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 67 in Voorne aan Zee
How Altena scores
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Is Altena a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Altena comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Altena 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, 31 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
Altena has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 15%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.7 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
53% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,505 — 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 Altena a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Altena comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Altena 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 Altena?
In Altena the police recorded 31 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Altena calculated?
Altena scores 9.3 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 Altena 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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