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Living in Podium

Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Amersfoort, and registered crime per resident is higher.

400 residents, 195 homes, Data: CBS, Politie, Kiesraad, Kadaster

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01 · Prices & homes

Homes cost less than the Amersfoort average.

The average WOZ value in Podium is €361,000, 19% lower than in Amersfoort (€446,000). 30% of the homes are owner-occupied, 28 percentage points less than in Amersfoort (58%).

Key figures
  • Average WOZ value
    €361,000
    19% lower than Amersfoort (€446,000)
  • More figures
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    30%
    28 percentage points lower than Amersfoort (58%)
  • Social housing
    35%
    6 percentage points higher than Amersfoort (29%)
  • Private rent
    35%
    22 percentage points higher than Amersfoort (13%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    30%
    32 percentage points lower than Amersfoort (62%)

Modelled ownership costs

Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€265 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)

€265/ month

Typical home here, before mortgage and energy

  • 102 m² · measured buurt average
  • WOZ €361,000 · average here
Levies you'll be billed€126NL median
  • Water board levy€42–
  • Property tax (OZB)€33€32
  • Waste levy€31€27
  • Sewage levy€20€22
Costs to set aside€139
  • Maintenance reserve€130–
  • Buildings insurance€9–

Model estimates, not bills.

For this home, Amersfoort's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 192nd of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.

cheapestdearest

Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.

Explanation
  • The home: one typical home of 102 m² (measured average in this buurt) with the average WOZ value here, €361,000.
  • Levies: Amersfoort's own OZB, sewage and waste rates for 2026. The water board levy uses national average rates.
  • Set aside: maintenance at 0.85% and buildings insurance at 0.06% a year of the rebuild cost (€1,800 per m²).
  • NL median: what the same home would pay in the middle gemeente. Gemeenten where a regional body collects the waste levy are left out.
  • Not included: mortgage and energy. These are estimates, not actual bills.

Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026

Dwelling value ladder

Podium has the lowest WOZ value of the 7 buurten in Vathorst-De Laak.

Netherlands€398,000
Amersfoort€446,000
Over de Laak€783,000
Laakse Tuinen€632,000
De Baken€489,000
Podium€361,000
Explanation

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)

WOZ value and age structure

Here: €361,000 average WOZ value.

ValueDwellingsAged 65+
Podium361,000195–
Waddeneilandenbuurt427,000171–
Zuiderzeestedenbuurt-Oost476,0001,073–
Zuiderzeestedenbuurt-West572,000543–
De Baken489,0001,373–
Laakse Tuinen632,000866–
Over de Laak783,00020–
Explanation

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)

Dwellings by ownership

The largest category is social housing, at 35% of dwellings.

  • Owner-occupied30%
  • Social housing35%
  • Private rent35%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by type

70% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.

  • Single-family homes30%
  • Multi-family homes70%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by build period

100% of dwellings were built in 2016 or later, against 9% in the municipality of Amersfoort.

  • 2016 and later100%
Explanation

Based on 277 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

02 · Safety

More registered crime per resident than the Amersfoort average.

In 2025, 98 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Podium, 2.2 times as high as in Amersfoort (44). Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.

Key figures
  • Crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025
    98
    2.2 times as high as Amersfoort (44)
  • Home burglary
    1
    2023–2025

Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025

In 2025, Podium registered 98 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 44 in the municipality of Amersfoort.

Podium98
The municipality of Amersfoort44
Explanation

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

Registered crime per year

In 2025, Podium registered 98 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 44 in the municipality of Amersfoort.

Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025
982.2 times as high as Amersfoort
Explanation

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

Crime by category

The largest category in Podium is 'Traffic': 31.1 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 6.9 in the municipality of Amersfoort.

PodiumAmersfoort
  • Traffic31.1
  • Theft and burglary22.2
  • Other and withheld17.8
  • Vandalism and public order13.3
  • Violence and threats13.3
  • Fraud and scams0.0
  • Environmental0.0
Explanation

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

Traffic accidents by outcome

In 2024, police in Podium registered 19 traffic accidents, of which 1 with injury and none fatal.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
FatalInjuryMaterial damage only
Explanation

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

03 · Living environment

Green space is below the Amersfoort average.

Semi-built-up land is the largest land use in Podium, covering 29% of the area, against 2% in Amersfoort. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 11% of the area, 6 percentage points below the 17% in Amersfoort.

Key figures
  • Green (parks, sport, nature)
    11%
    6 percentage points lower than Amersfoort (17%)
  • Other built-up, share of the area
    29%
    27 percentage points higher than Amersfoort (2%)
  • Built-up, share of the area
    21%
    21 percentage points lower than Amersfoort (42%)
  • Traffic, share of the area
    25%
    18 percentage points higher than Amersfoort (7%)

Land use

11% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 17% in the municipality of Amersfoort.

  • Traffic25%
  • Built-up21.4%
  • Other built-up28.6%
  • Recreation7.1%
  • Agriculture14.3%
  • Forest and nature3.6%
Explanation

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

Distance to amenities

A large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 600 m.

DistanceValue
Large supermarket600 m–
GP practice1,800 m–
Primary school1,200 m–
Daycare1,000 m–
Large supermarkets–1.6
GP practices–0
Daycares–0.6
Explanation

Average road distance from every address in this buurt to the nearest amenity, and the average count within 1 km — a buurt average, not a distance from one address.

Source: CBS proximity statistics 2025

04 · Residents

57% are between 25 and 45, against 28% in the municipality of Amersfoort.

Podium has 400 inhabitants (2026), or 1,410 per km² (46% lower than in Amersfoort). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Amersfoort was 82%, 4 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 22% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.

Key figures
  • Turnout, municipality of Amersfoort
    82%
    4 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (78%)
  • More figures
  • Aged 25 to 45
    57%
    29 percentage points higher than Amersfoort (28%)
  • Never married
    65%
    14 percentage points higher than Amersfoort (51%)
  • Dutch origin
    58%
    13 percentage points lower than Amersfoort (71%)
  • D66, share of the vote
    22%
    5 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (17%)

Population per year

The population in 2026: 400.

Residents, 2026
400

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Density

With 1,410 residents per km², this buurt is 46% less densely populated than the municipality of Amersfoort.

Residents per km²1,410
Dwellings per km²672.4

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Births and deaths per 1,000 residents

In 2025, 44.4 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
BirthsDeaths

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Residents by age group

57% of residents are between 25 and 45.

  • 0 to 1590
  • 15 to 2530
  • 25 to 45230
  • 45 to 6545
  • 65 to 805
  • 80 and over5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Marital status

65% of residents are never married.

  • Never married260
  • Married110
  • Divorced25
  • Widowed5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Residents by country of origin

58% of residents have Dutch origin.

  • Netherlands235
  • Europe (excluding the Netherlands)35
  • Outside Europe135

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Parliamentary election

These figures are for the whole municipality of Amersfoort; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 82% of eligible voters in Amersfoort voted. The largest party was D66 with 22% of the valid votes.

Municipality of AmersfoortThe Netherlands
D66
21.9%
16.9%
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)
10.3%
16.7%
VVD
12.6%
14.2%
GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
17%
12.8%
CDA
11.2%
11.8%
JA21
5.1%
5.9%
Forum voor Democratie
3.4%
4.5%
BBB
1.2%
2.6%
Other
17.4%
14.4%
Explanation

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

05 · More figures

More figures

Podium has an average of 0.7 cars per household, 65% lower than in Amersfoort (2.0). 20% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 21 percentage points less than in Amersfoort (41%).

Key figures
  • Cars per household (2025)
    0.7
    65% lower than Amersfoort (2.0)
  • Cars not on petrol (2025)
    20%
    21 percentage points lower than Amersfoort (41%)
  • Residential, share of addresses
    96%
    8 percentage points higher than Amersfoort (88%)
  • Industrial, share of addresses
    1%
    1 percentage point lower than Amersfoort (2%)
  • Office, share of addresses
    1%
    1 percentage point lower than Amersfoort (2%)
  • Private rent
    35%
    21 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (14%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    30%
    33 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (63%)
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    30%
    27 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (57%)

Passenger cars by fuel type

20% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 41% in the municipality of Amersfoort (2025).

  • Petrol80%
  • Other fuel (diesel, LPG, electric etc.)20%
Explanation

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

Vehicles by kind

In 2025, 75 passenger cars and 10 motorcycles were registered here.

Passenger cars75
Motorcycles10
Explanation

At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Addresses by building use

96% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is office (1%).

  • Residential95.5%
  • Office1%
  • Assembly0.7%
  • Industrial0.7%
  • Other3.1%
Explanation

Based on 290 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

Biggest difference from the Netherlands

1,410 residents per km²: 2.6 times as densely populated as the Dutch average.

This areaThe Netherlands
  • Residents per km²1,410
  • Private rent35%
  • Single-family dwellings30%
  • Owner-occupied dwellings30%
  • Multi-family dwellings70%
Explanation

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

06 · Nearby areas

Other neighbourhoods in Amersfoort

Other neighbourhoods in Amersfoort
Over de Laak65€783,000–
Laakse Tuinen2,520€632,0006
Zuiderzeestedenbuurt-West1,585€572,0008
De Baken3,445€489,00013
Zuiderzeestedenbuurt-Oost2,525€476,00016

Sources: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026, Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01, CBS proximity statistics 2025, CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025, BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024, Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025, CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022, Municipal levies + CBS 2026. Figures describe the whole neighbourhood.

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Living in Podium (Amersfoort): WOZ, prices & safety