The population is shrinking, while it grows in Berkelland. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Berkelland, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Simmelink West is €286,000, 26% lower than in Berkelland (€385,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 53%, against a rise of 41% in Berkelland. 67% of the homes are owner-occupied, 2 percentage points less than in Berkelland (69%).
The average WOZ value rose 53% between 2021 and 2025, to €286,000.
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, Berkelland's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 184th 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
Simmelink West has the 2nd-lowest WOZ value of the 20 buurten in Eibergen.
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: €286,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simmelink West | 286,000 | 334 | – |
| Rekken | 395,000 | 192 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Hupsel-West | 564,000 | 112 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Hupsel-Oost | 534,000 | 60 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Holterhoek | 563,000 | 237 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Mallem en Loo | 563,000 | 148 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Olden Eibergen | 545,000 | 108 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Rekken | 547,000 | 333 | – |
| Westenesch-Hofrichter | 282,000 | 524 | – |
| D'n Esch | 319,000 | 380 | – |
| Bronbeek-Rozenkamp | 314,000 | 451 | – |
| Zuivelfabriek | 302,000 | 303 | – |
| Op de Bleek | 466,000 | 206 | – |
| Eibergen Centrum | 307,000 | 469 | – |
| Mollemors | 448,000 | 219 | – |
| Berkellanden | 540,000 | 172 | – |
| Prins Bernhardstraat eo | 292,000 | 697 | – |
| Simmelink Noord | 443,000 | 147 | – |
| Simmelink Zuid | 338,000 | 286 | – |
| Vrijersmaat-Plan Zuid | 331,000 | 316 | – |
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 67% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
76% 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
96% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 22% in the municipality of Berkelland.
Based on 334 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, 13 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Simmelink West, 41% lower than in Berkelland (22). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 50%, against a fall of 3% in Berkelland. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Simmelink West registered 13 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 22 in the municipality of Berkelland.
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, Simmelink West registered 13 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 22 in the municipality of Berkelland.
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 Simmelink West is 'Traffic': 10.3 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 5.4 in the municipality of Berkelland.
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: 1.0 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 1.3 in the municipality of Berkelland.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
An estimated 74% of adults in Simmelink West rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points less than in Berkelland. More adults feel lonely (44% against 40%), more report anxiety or depression (45% against 41%), more smoke (17% against 14%) and more are overweight (58% against 55%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Simmelink West, covering 94% of the area, against 5% in Berkelland.
An estimated 74% of adults rate their own health as good, against 76% in the municipality of Berkelland (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
0% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 10% in the municipality of Berkelland.
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 daycare lies here at an average road distance of 700 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 900 m | – |
| GP practice | 800 m | – |
| Primary school | 800 m | – |
| Daycare | 700 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 1.5 |
| GP practices | – | 1.5 |
| Daycares | – | 3.5 |
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
Simmelink West has 680 inhabitants (2026), or 4,475 per km² (26.3 times as high as in Berkelland). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 6%, against no real change in Berkelland. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Berkelland was 85%, 7 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, CDA had the highest share there: 16% of the vote, against 12% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 6% between 2021 and 2026, to 680.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 4,475 residents per km², this buurt is 26 times as densely populated as the municipality of Berkelland.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 7.4 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
26% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
50% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
86% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
65% 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 Berkelland; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 85% of eligible voters in Berkelland voted. The largest party was CDA with 16% 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
Simmelink West has an average of 1.2 cars per household, 14% lower than in Berkelland (1.4). 17% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 3 percentage points less than in Berkelland (20%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 10 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
17% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 20% in the municipality of Berkelland (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 11% to 17% between 2021 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, 380 passenger cars and 25 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
99% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is education (0.3%).
Based on 337 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
4,475 residents per km²: 8.3 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
| Verspreide huizen Hupsel-West | 300 | €564,000 | 67 |
| Verspreide huizen Mallem en Loo | 360 | €563,000 | 39 |
| Verspreide huizen Holterhoek | 590 | €563,000 | 9 |
| Verspreide huizen Rekken | 870 | €547,000 | 36 |
| Verspreide huizen Olden Eibergen | 290 | €545,000 | 14 |
| Berkellanden | 425 | €540,000 | 7 |
| Verspreide huizen Hupsel-Oost | 150 | €534,000 | – |
| Op de Bleek | 530 | €466,000 | 7 |
| Mollemors | 460 | €448,000 | 9 |
| Simmelink Noord | 350 | €443,000 | 0 |
| Rekken | 435 | €395,000 | 2 |
| Simmelink Zuid | 620 | €338,000 | 19 |
| Vrijersmaat-Plan Zuid | 745 | €331,000 | 19 |
| D'n Esch | 865 | €319,000 | 17 |
| Bronbeek-Rozenkamp | 1,050 | €314,000 | 9 |
| Eibergen Centrum | 745 | €307,000 | 90 |
| Zuivelfabriek | 580 | €302,000 | 7 |
| Prins Bernhardstraat eo | 1,175 | €292,000 | 27 |
| Westenesch-Hofrichter | 1,145 | €282,000 | 13 |
| Industrieterrein De Kiefte | 55 | – | – |
| De Mors | 40 | – | – |