The population is shrinking, while it grows in Assen. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Assen, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in De Messchen is €417,000, 42% higher than in Assen (€294,000). Between 2023 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 7%, against a rise of 6% in Assen. 93% of the homes are owner-occupied, 34 percentage points more than in Assen (59%).
The average WOZ value rose 7% between 2023 and 2025, to €417,000.
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: ~€349 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Assen's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 205th 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 Messchen has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 15 buurten in Marsdijk.
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: €417,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Messchen | 417,000 | 352 | – |
| Messchenveld | 366,000 | 48 | – |
| De Hamels | 439,000 | 218 | – |
| De Kleuven | 273,000 | 473 | – |
| De Dreven | 296,000 | 467 | – |
| De Breeën | 367,000 | 410 | – |
| De Hoven | 380,000 | 361 | – |
| De Heugten | 258,000 | 575 | – |
| De Beemden | 299,000 | 343 | – |
| De Hullen | 324,000 | 392 | – |
| De Stoepen | 364,000 | 829 | – |
| De Goorns | 264,000 | 327 | – |
| Bedrijventerrein Marsdijk West | 341,000 | 66 | – |
| Bedrijventerrein Oost | 279,000 | 22 | – |
| Bedrijventerrein Marsdijk Oost | 364,000 | 74 | – |
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 93% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
91% 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
100% of dwellings were built between 1992 and 2005, against 22% in the municipality of Assen.
Based on 352 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, 12 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in De Messchen, 71% lower than in Assen (42). Since 2023 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 2%, against a fall of 22% in Assen. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, De Messchen registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 42 in the municipality of Assen.
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 Messchen registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 42 in the municipality of Assen.
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 Messchen is 'Fraud and scams': 7.3 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 6.3 in the municipality of Assen.
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: 0.0 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 1.7 in the municipality of Assen.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2023, police in De Messchen registered 1 traffic accidents, of which 0 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) 2023
An estimated 81% of adults in De Messchen rate their own health as good, 9 percentage points more than in Assen. Fewer adults feel lonely (37% against 48%), fewer smoke (9% against 17%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (36% against 44%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (53% against 48%). Built-up land is the largest land use in De Messchen, covering 65% of the area, against 22% in Assen. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 16% of the area, 12 percentage points below the 28% in Assen.
An estimated 81% of adults rate their own health as good, against 72% in the municipality of Assen (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
16% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 28% in the municipality of Assen.
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
A primary school lies here at an average road distance of 1000 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,700 m | – |
| GP practice | 1,800 m | – |
| Primary school | 1,000 m | – |
| Daycare | 1,000 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| Daycares | – | 0.6 |
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
De Messchen has 805 inhabitants (2026), or 3,196 per km² (3.7 times as high as in Assen). Between 2023 and 2026 the population fell 4%, against a rise of 2% in Assen. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Assen was 79%, 1 percentage point above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 18% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 4% between 2023 and 2026, to 805.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 3,196 residents per km², this buurt is 3.7 times as densely populated as the municipality of Assen.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 6.1 children were born per 1,000 residents; 6.1 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
34% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
51% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
89% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
45% of residents have a higher professional (hbo) or university (wo) education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Assen; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 79% of eligible voters in Assen voted. The largest party was D66 with 18% 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 Messchen has an average of 1.3 cars per household, 18% higher than in Assen (1.1). 33% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 8 percentage points more than in Assen (25%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 20 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
33% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 25% in the municipality of Assen (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 27% to 33% between 2023 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, 465 passenger cars and 45 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
100% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is office (0.3%).
Based on 353 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
3,196 residents per km²: 5.9 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
| De Hamels | 525 | €439,000 | 4 |
| De Hoven | 840 | €380,000 | 53 |
| De Breeën | 925 | €367,000 | 23 |
| Messchenveld | 140 | €366,000 | – |
| Bedrijventerrein Marsdijk Oost | 170 | €364,000 | – |
| De Stoepen | 2,140 | €364,000 | 9 |
| Bedrijventerrein Marsdijk West | 150 | €341,000 | – |
| De Hullen | 940 | €324,000 | 11 |
| De Beemden | 805 | €299,000 | 31 |
| De Dreven | 1,070 | €296,000 | 14 |
| Bedrijventerrein Oost | 45 | €279,000 | – |
| De Kleuven | 1,060 | €273,000 | 27 |
| De Goorns | 700 | €264,000 | 12 |
| De Heugten | 1,180 | €258,000 | 22 |
| Havenkanaal Zuidzijde | 170 | – | – |
| Havenkanaal Noordzijde | 15 | – | – |
| Bedrijventerrein West | 140 | – | – |