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The population is growing slower than in Borger-Odoorn. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Buinen is €388,000, 21% higher than in Borger-Odoorn (€321,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 43%, against a rise of 41% in Borger-Odoorn. 89% of the homes are owner-occupied, 15 percentage points more than in Borger-Odoorn (74%).
The average WOZ value rose 43% between 2021 and 2025, to €388,000.
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: ~€393 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Borger-Odoorn's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 272nd 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
Buinen has the lowest WOZ value of the 2 buurten in Buinen.
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: €388,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buinen | 388,000 | 308 | – |
| Buinen Buitengebied | 395,000 | 33 | – |
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 89% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
97% 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
41% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 24% in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn.
Based on 308 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, 8 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Buinen, 53% lower than in Borger-Odoorn (17). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 19%, against a fall of 26% in Borger-Odoorn. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Buinen registered 8 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 17 in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn.
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, Buinen registered 8 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 17 in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn.
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 Buinen is 'Theft and burglary': 2.7 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 5.3 in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn.
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 Borger-Odoorn.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
An estimated 78% of adults in Buinen rate their own health as good, 5 percentage points more than in Borger-Odoorn. Fewer adults are overweight (56% against 60%), fewer feel lonely (42% against 46%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (39% against 42%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (44% against 42%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Buinen, covering 63% of the area, against 76% in Borger-Odoorn. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 3% of the area, 13 percentage points below the 16% in Borger-Odoorn.
An estimated 78% of adults rate their own health as good, against 73% in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn (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
3% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 16% in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn.
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 500 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 3,100 m | – |
| GP practice | 3,500 m | – |
| Primary school | 3,300 m | – |
| Daycare | 500 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| Daycares | – | 0.9 |
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
Buinen has 740 inhabitants (2026), or 791 per km² (8.3 times as high as in Borger-Odoorn). Between 2021 and 2026 the population stayed about level, against a rise of 2% in Borger-Odoorn. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn was 83%, 5 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 20% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population held steady between 2021 and 2026, at 740.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 791 residents per km², this buurt is 8.3 times as densely populated as the municipality of Borger-Odoorn.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 6.7 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
34% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
48% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
91% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
39% 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 Borger-Odoorn; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 83% of eligible voters in Borger-Odoorn voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 20% 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
Buinen has an average of 1.7 cars per household, 21% higher than in Borger-Odoorn (1.4). 28% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points more than in Borger-Odoorn (26%).
Nijverheid en energie is the largest sector, with 25 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
28% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 26% in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn (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 30% to 28% 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, 535 passenger cars and 85 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
95% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (8%).
Based on 325 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% multi-family dwellings, against 37% nationally.
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) 2025
| Buinen Buitengebied | 65 | €395,000 |