The population is growing faster than in Groningen. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Groningen.
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The average WOZ value in Essen is €920,000, 2.9 times as high as in Groningen (€313,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 39%, the same as in Groningen. 92% of the homes are owner-occupied, 51 percentage points more than in Groningen (41%).
The average WOZ value rose 39% between 2021 and 2025, to €920,000.
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: ~€626 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Groningen's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 299th 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
Essen has the highest WOZ value of the 8 buurten in Haren-West e.o..
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: €920,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essen | 920,000 | 37 | – |
| Haren-Centrum | 381,000 | 697 | – |
| Haren-Zuidwest | 479,000 | 1,906 | – |
| Haren-Zuidoost | 476,000 | 1,748 | – |
| Haren-Noord | 590,000 | 1,457 | – |
| Buitengebied Haren-Noordwest | 409,000 | 5 | – |
| Paterswoldsemeer | 753,000 | 105 | – |
| Buitengebied Haren-Zuidoost | 898,000 | 145 | – |
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 92% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
100% 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
78% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 28% in the municipality of Groningen.
Based on 37 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
Essen has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 3 crimes were registered, against 2 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
3 crimes were registered in Essen in 2025 (2 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 Essen is 'Theft and burglary': 2 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 2021, police in Essen registered 1 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) 2021
Agricultural land is the largest land use in Essen, covering 86% of the area, against 52% in Groningen. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 6% of the area, 8 percentage points below the 14% in Groningen.
6% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 14% in the municipality of Groningen.
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 1400 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,800 m | – |
| GP practice | 1,700 m | – |
| Primary school | 2,000 m | – |
| Daycare | 1,400 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| 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
Essen has 100 inhabitants (2026), or 113 per km² (91% lower than in Groningen). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Groningen was 81%, 3 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 24% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 18% between 2021 and 2026, to 100.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 113 residents per km², this buurt is 91% less densely populated than the municipality of Groningen.
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
30% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
55% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
90% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Groningen; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 81% of eligible voters in Groningen voted. The largest party was D66 with 24% 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
22% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 7 percentage points less than in Groningen (29%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
22% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 29% in the municipality of Groningen (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 33% to 22% 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, 45 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
95% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (5%).
Based on 39 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
113 residents per km²: 79% 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
| Buitengebied Haren-Zuidoost | 360 | €898,000 | 20 |
| Paterswoldsemeer | 270 | €753,000 | 131 |
| Haren-Noord | 3,920 | €590,000 | 16 |
| Haren-Zuidwest | 3,935 | €479,000 | 14 |
| Haren-Zuidoost | 3,635 | €476,000 | 24 |
| Haren-Centrum | 1,170 | €381,000 | 72 |
| Buitengebied Haren-Zuidwest | 0 | – | – |
| Wolddeelen | 0 | – | – |
| Nesciopark | 45 | – | – |
| Buitengebied Haren-Noordwest | 15 | – | – |