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The population is growing slower than in Almere. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Almere, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in De Gouwen is €386,000, 3% lower than in Almere (€397,000). Between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 31%, against a rise of 28% in Almere. 81% of the homes are owner-occupied, 19 percentage points more than in Almere (62%).
The average WOZ value rose 31% between 2022 and 2025, to €386,000.
The WOZ value as struck on 1 January of the year before the KWB edition.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€291 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Almere's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 273rd of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.
Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.
Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026
De Gouwen has the 25th-highest WOZ value of the 52 wijken in the municipality of Almere.
Average WOZ value from the Netherlands down to this area, and its rank within its own group (e.g. buurten within the same wijk). Provincie is omitted: KWB publishes no province rows to average.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)
Here: €386,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Gouwen | 386,000 | 1,196 | – |
| Centrum Almere Haven | 281,000 | 1,077 | – |
| De Werven | 304,000 | 1,347 | – |
| De Hoven | 306,000 | 1,175 | – |
| De Meenten | 334,000 | 1,039 | – |
| De Grienden | 368,000 | 987 | – |
| De Marken | 348,000 | 1,296 | – |
| De Wierden | 302,000 | 1,783 | – |
| De Velden | 631,000 | 590 | – |
| Overgooi | 1,166,000 | 261 | – |
| De Laren | 513,000 | 381 | – |
| De Steiger | 272,000 | 37 | – |
| Centrum Almere Stad | 295,000 | 2,925 | – |
| Filmwijk | 394,000 | 4,499 | – |
| Danswijk | 376,000 | 2,128 | – |
| Parkwijk | 429,000 | 2,155 | – |
| Verzetswijk | 413,000 | 1,377 | – |
| Waterwijk | 347,000 | 3,184 | – |
| Tussen de Vaarten Noord | 368,000 | 2,235 | – |
| Tussen de Vaarten Zuid | 421,000 | 3,752 | – |
| Staatsliedenwijk | 244,000 | 1,167 | – |
| Kruidenwijk | 344,000 | 3,372 | – |
| Stedenwijk | 335,000 | 4,216 | – |
| Muziekwijk Noord | 391,000 | 4,748 | – |
| Muziekwijk Zuid | 370,000 | 2,701 | – |
| Literatuurwijk | 429,000 | 3,566 | – |
| Noorderplassen | 582,000 | 2,871 | – |
| Hortus | 330,000 | 80 | – |
| Randstad | 198,000 | 62 | – |
Each circle is an area: position by average WOZ value, size by dwelling count. The 65-and-over share (pct_65_plus) travels on every point but is not yet drawn as a second axis.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)
The largest category is owner-occupied, at 81% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
90% of the dwelling stock is single-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
90% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 35% in the municipality of Almere.
Based on 1,196 dwellings with a registered construction year in the BAG (verblijfsobjecten whose pand has no usable bouwjaar, such as 1005 or 9999, are excluded).
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
In 2025, 27 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in De Gouwen, 32% lower than in Almere (40). Since 2022 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 23%, against a fall of 2% in Almere. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, De Gouwen registered 27 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 40 in the municipality of Almere.
Crime is counted where it happens and divided by the number of residents, so places with many visitors — city centres, nightlife, stations — score higher.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2025, De Gouwen registered 27 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 40 in the municipality of Almere.
Registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED. A year without a matching population figure (KWB) is left out.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in De Gouwen is 'Theft and burglary': 12.0 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 17.0 in the municipality of Almere.
Four categories are structurally withheld at buurt level (sex offences, child pornography, child prostitution, other integrity offences); the gap with the published total is shown under 'other'.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
Home burglary 2023-2025: 6.4 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.5 in the municipality of Almere.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2024, police in De Gouwen registered 9 traffic accidents, of which 2 with injury and none fatal.
Registered accidents (BRON, Rijkswaterstaat); material-damage-only accidents have not been systematically registered since roughly 2010 and are not comparable between areas. This area shows only accidents with an exactly known location (roughly 80-85% of all registered accidents); the rest is known only at street, intersection or gemeente level. The comparison with the gemeente therefore also uses only the gemeente's exactly-located accidents, which is why that figure is lower than on the gemeente's own page.
Source: BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024
An estimated 74% of adults in De Gouwen rate their own health as good, 1 percentage point more than in Almere. Fewer adults feel lonely (45% against 51%), fewer report anxiety or depression (45% against 50%) and fewer smoke (15% against 16%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (51% against 46%). Built-up land is the largest land use in De Gouwen, covering 70% of the area, against 15% in Almere. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 21% of the area, 4 percentage points above the 17% in Almere.
An estimated 74% of adults rate their own health as good, against 73% in the municipality of Almere (2024).
An RIVM model estimate (small-area estimation from the 2024 Health Monitor for Adults and Elderly), not a direct tabulation — even a buurt that was not itself surveyed gets an estimate. Figures cover adults aged 18 and over.
Source: RIVM/CBS Gezondheidsmonitor Volwassenen en Ouderen (kleine-gebieden-schatting) 2024
21% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 17% in the municipality of Almere.
Every share is calculated as a percentage of the TOTAL area (land and water together, peiljaar 2022); water is therefore one of the slices itself, not a separate whole. Green is the sum of recreational terrain (parks, sport fields, allotments, day recreation) and natural terrain (forest, open natural terrain) — agricultural land is not counted as green here.
Source: CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022
De Gouwen has 2,735 inhabitants (2026), or 3,913 per km² (2.2 times as high as in Almere). Between 2022 and 2026 the population rose 1%, against a rise of 7% in Almere. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Almere was 68%, 10 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 19% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population held steady between 2022 and 2026, at 2,735.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 3,913 residents per km², this wijk is 2.2 times as densely populated as the municipality of Almere.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 10.9 children were born per 1,000 residents; 7.2 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
24% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
45% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
71% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
46% of residents have a havo, vwo or mbo2-4 level education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Almere; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 68% of eligible voters in Almere voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 19% of the valid votes.
Official election result (Kiesraad), top 8 parties by national vote count plus 'Other'; share of valid votes. A voter may vote at any polling station in their own gemeente; there is therefore no reliable buurt- or wijk-level result. This figure is the whole gemeente's own result.
Source: Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025
De Gouwen has an average of 1.1 cars per household. 26% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 28 percentage points less than in Almere (54%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 90 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
26% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 54% in the municipality of Almere (2025).
CBS splits passenger cars into 'petrol' and 'other fuel' only. That second category bundles diesel, LPG, electric (including hybrid), hydrogen, alcohol, LNG and CNG together — CBS publishes no separate electric-car count per buurt, wijk or gemeente, so this is not the same as an 'electric share'.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 21% to 26% between 2022 and 2025.
See the 'Passenger cars by fuel type' card for what 'other fuel' covers — this is not the share of electric cars.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
In 2025, 1,390 passenger cars and 135 motorcycles were registered here.
At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
94% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (4%).
Based on 1,275 verblijfsobjecten in use. An object with several registered uses (e.g. a flat above a shop) is counted under each of them, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
3,913 residents per km²: 7.3 times as densely populated as the Dutch average.
The 5 characteristics that differ most from the national average, ranked by log ratio (so a halving and a doubling count as equally different); the shown percentage is the ordinary difference against the Netherlands.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
| Lindengouw, Muidergouw en Peppengouw | 1,075 | €421,000 | 16 |
| Kromgouw en Overgouw | 535 | €395,000 | 22 |
| Bosgouw, Brongouw en Nijvergouw | 1,125 | €351,000 | 33 |
| Bedrijventerrein De Paal | 0 | – | – |