Loading area…
The population is growing faster than in De Fryske Marren. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of De Fryske Marren, and registered crime per resident is about the same.
4,360 residents,
Get a full report on value, costs, energy and surroundings.
Compared with the municipality of De Fryske Marren · newest year available
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Balk is €317,000, 13% lower than in De Fryske Marren (€363,000). Between 2016 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 88%, the same as in De Fryske Marren. 54% of the homes are owner-occupied, 16 percentage points less than in De Fryske Marren (70%).
The average WOZ value rose 88% between 2016 and 2025, to €317,000.
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: ~€320 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, De Fryske Marren's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 86th 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
Balk has the 2nd-lowest WOZ value of the 48 wijken in the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
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: €317,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balk | 317,000 | 1,972 | – |
| Akmarijp | 546,000 | 45 | – |
| Bakhuizen | 284,000 | 495 | – |
| Bantega | 460,000 | 266 | – |
| Boornzwaag | 596,000 | 92 | – |
| Broek | 916,000 | 137 | – |
| Delfstrahuizen | 451,000 | 237 | – |
| Dijken | 818,000 | 22 | – |
| Doniaga | 466,000 | 32 | – |
| Echten | 349,000 | 120 | – |
| Echtenerbrug | 327,000 | 457 | – |
| Elahuizen | 443,000 | 156 | – |
| Follega | 547,000 | 57 | – |
| Goingarijp | 536,000 | 146 | – |
| Harich | 544,000 | 189 | – |
| Haskerhorne | 380,000 | 203 | – |
| Idskenhuizen | 336,000 | 230 | – |
| Joure | 325,000 | 6,224 | – |
| Kolderwolde | 373,000 | 21 | – |
| Langweer | 385,000 | 603 | – |
| Lemmer | 342,000 | 4,907 | – |
| Mirns | 555,000 | 49 | – |
| Nijehaske | 419,000 | 21 | – |
| Nijemirdum | 460,000 | 235 | – |
| Oldeouwer | 484,000 | 35 | – |
| Oosterzee | 341,000 | 386 | – |
| Oudega | 359,000 | 123 | – |
| Oudehaske | 389,000 | 791 | – |
| Oudemirdum | 400,000 | 581 | – |
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 54% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
83% 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
26% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 24% in the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
Based on 1,982 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, 21 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Balk, about the same as in De Fryske Marren (21). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 24%, against a fall of 13% in De Fryske Marren. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Balk registered 21 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 21 in the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
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, Balk registered 21 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 21 in the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
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 Balk is 'Theft and burglary': 7.0 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 6.9 in the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
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: 2.2 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 2.2 in the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
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 Balk registered 5 traffic accidents, of which 1 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 75% of adults in Balk rate their own health as good, 1 percentage point less than in De Fryske Marren. Fewer adults meet the physical activity guideline (46% against 48%) and fewer drink excessively (5% against 6%), but more are overweight (54% against 53%) and more report anxiety or depression (39% against 38%). Water is the largest land use in Balk, covering 33% of the area, against 36% in De Fryske Marren. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 10% of the area, 3 percentage points above the 7% in De Fryske Marren.
An estimated 75% of adults rate their own health as good, against 76% in the municipality of De Fryske Marren (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
10% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 7% in the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
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
Balk has 4,360 inhabitants (2026), or 1,303 per km² (8.7 times as high as in De Fryske Marren). Between 2016 and 2026 the population rose 11%, against a rise of 2% in De Fryske Marren. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of De Fryske Marren was 84%, 6 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, CDA had the highest share there: 18% of the vote, against 12% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 11% between 2016 and 2026, to 4,360.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 1,303 residents per km², this wijk is 8.7 times as densely populated as the municipality of De Fryske Marren.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 12.3 children were born per 1,000 residents; 16.8 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
23% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
44% 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
44% 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 De Fryske Marren; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 84% of eligible voters in De Fryske Marren voted. The largest party was CDA 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
Balk has an average of 1.2 cars per household, 8% lower than in De Fryske Marren (1.3). 25% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 6 percentage points less than in De Fryske Marren (31%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 110 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
25% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 31% in the municipality of De Fryske Marren (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 25% to 25% between 2016 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, 2,155 passenger cars and 165 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
77% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (9%).
Based on 2,573 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
1,303 residents per km²: 2.4 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
| Balk | 4,360 | €317,000 | 21 |