The population is growing faster than in Assen. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Assen, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Centrum is €275,000, 6% lower than in Assen (€294,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 58%, against a rise of 81% in Assen. 40% of the homes are owner-occupied, 19 percentage points less than in Assen (59%).
The average WOZ value rose 58% between 2014 and 2025, to €275,000.
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: ~€275 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 148th 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
Centrum has the 5th-lowest WOZ value of the 10 wijken in the municipality of Assen.
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: €275,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centrum | 275,000 | 4,391 | – |
| Lariks | 218,000 | 3,299 | – |
| Noorderpark | 251,000 | 4,627 | – |
| Assen-Oost | 291,000 | 4,905 | – |
| Pittelo | 237,000 | 1,581 | – |
| Assen-West | 304,000 | 1,857 | – |
| Peelo | 249,000 | 2,950 | – |
| Marsdijk | 330,000 | 4,990 | – |
| Kloosterveen | 401,000 | 4,323 | – |
| Buitengebied | 490,000 | 478 | – |
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 40% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
72% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
29% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 8% in the municipality of Assen.
Based on 4,517 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, 125 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Centrum, 3.0 times as high as in Assen (42). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 2%, against a fall of 13% in Assen. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Centrum registered 125 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, Centrum registered 125 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 Centrum is 'Theft and burglary': 75.7 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 17.0 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: 2.7 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 2024, police in Centrum registered 45 traffic accidents, of which 11 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 69% of adults in Centrum rate their own health as good, 3 percentage points less than in Assen. Fewer adults are overweight (50% against 55%), but more smoke (20% against 17%), more feel lonely (51% against 48%) and more report anxiety or depression (47% against 44%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Centrum, covering 51% of the area, against 22% in Assen. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 36% of the area, 8 percentage points above the 28% in Assen.
An estimated 69% 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
36% 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
Centrum has 7,315 inhabitants (2026), or 2,335 per km² (2.7 times as high as in Assen). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 30%, against a rise of 5% 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 grew 30% between 2014 and 2026, to 7,315.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 2,335 residents per km², this wijk is 2.7 times as densely populated as the municipality of Assen.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 4.8 children were born per 1,000 residents; 21.3 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
25% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
49% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
77% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
42% 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 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
Centrum has an average of 0.8 cars per household, 27% lower than in Assen (1.1). 25% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), about the same as in Assen (25%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 335 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
25% 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 21% to 25% between 2014 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, 3,470 passenger cars and 280 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
82% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is retail (6%).
Based on 5,494 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
2,335 residents per km²: 4.3 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
| Zuiderpark | 360 | €394,000 | 51 |
| De Hertenkamp | 605 | €383,000 | 38 |
| Oude Gasfabriek | 235 | €376,000 | 17 |
| De Esch | 665 | €367,000 | 22 |
| Overcingel | 600 | €360,000 | 202 |
| Bomenbuurt | 545 | €356,000 | 13 |
| Cultureelkwartier | 380 | €317,000 | 149 |
| Asserbos | 110 | €275,000 | – |
| Oranjebuurt | 955 | €266,000 | 63 |
| Galgenveld | 915 | €216,000 | 116 |
| Koopmanskwartier | 1,515 | €186,000 | 196 |
| Brinkkwartier | 410 | €180,000 | 340 |
| Erfgoedkwartier | 30 | – | – |