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The population is growing faster than in Dordrecht.
20 residents,
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Merwelanden has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 10 crimes were registered, against 6 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
10 crimes were registered in Merwelanden in 2025 (6 in 2021).
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200) — registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in Merwelanden is 'Theft and burglary': 7 in 2025.
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200). 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
In 2024, police in Merwelanden 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) 2024
Forest and natural land is the largest land use in Merwelanden, covering 54% of the area, against 21% in Dordrecht. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 59% of the area, 31 percentage points above the 28% in Dordrecht.
59% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 28% in the municipality of Dordrecht.
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 3200 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 3,600 m | – |
| GP practice | 4,600 m | – |
| Primary school | 4,200 m | – |
| Daycare | 3,200 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0.3 |
| GP practices | – | 0.3 |
| Daycares | – | 0 |
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
Merwelanden has 20 inhabitants (2026), or 1 per km² (100% lower than in Dordrecht). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Dordrecht was 73%, 5 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) 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 33% between 2021 and 2026, to 20.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 1 residents per km², this buurt is 100% less densely populated than the municipality of Dordrecht.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, almost no children were born; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
67% of residents are between 65 and 80.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
100% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
60% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Dordrecht; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 73% of eligible voters in Dordrecht voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) 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
0% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 25 percentage points less than in Dordrecht (25%).
0% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 25% in the municipality of Dordrecht (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 0% to 0% 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, 10 passenger cars and 0 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
41% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is assembly (14%).
Based on 37 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 residents per km²: 100% less densely populated than 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
| Dordtse Biesbosch | 420 | €477,000 | 197 |
| Bovenpolder | 95 | €471,000 | – |
| 3e Merwedehaven | 0 | – | – |