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The population is growing faster than in Heemstede. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Heemstede, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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The average WOZ value in Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o is €853,000, 25% higher than in Heemstede (€680,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 22%, against a rise of 24% in Heemstede. 71% of the homes are owner-occupied, 5 percentage points more than in Heemstede (66%).
The average WOZ value rose 22% between 2021 and 2025, to €853,000.
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: ~€394 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Heemstede's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 151st 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
Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 10 buurten in Heemstede-Centrum.
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: €853,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o | 853,000 | 550 | – |
| Centrum | 568,000 | 1,921 | – |
| Oude Dorp, Indische buurt en omgeving | 538,000 | 2,090 | – |
| Zandvoortselaan en Berkenrode e.o. | 799,000 | 920 | – |
| Heemsteedse Dreef, Schildersbuurt e.o. | 1,126,000 | 1,898 | – |
| Schouwbroekerpolder | 587,000 | 802 | – |
| Rivierenbuurt | 611,000 | 786 | – |
| Kennemerduin en omgeving | 621,000 | 702 | – |
| Provincienbuurt | 365,000 | 523 | – |
| Geleerdenbuurt | 554,000 | 1,003 | – |
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 71% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
51% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
45% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 38% in the municipality of Heemstede.
Based on 552 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, 42 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o, 8% higher than in Heemstede (39). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 38%, against a rise of 2% in Heemstede. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o registered 42 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 39 in the municipality of Heemstede.
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, Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o registered 42 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 39 in the municipality of Heemstede.
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 Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o is 'Theft and burglary': 21.1 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 21.9 in the municipality of Heemstede.
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: 10.9 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 4.2 in the municipality of Heemstede.
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 Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o registered 16 traffic accidents, of which 10 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 82% of adults in Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o rate their own health as good, 5 percentage points more than in Heemstede. Fewer adults are overweight (35% against 42%), fewer report anxiety or depression (37% against 42%) and fewer feel lonely (37% against 41%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (57% against 55%). Forest and natural land is the largest land use in Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o, covering 50% of the area, against 17% in Heemstede. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 55% of the area, 32 percentage points above the 23% in Heemstede.
An estimated 82% of adults rate their own health as good, against 77% in the municipality of Heemstede (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
55% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 23% in the municipality of Heemstede.
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 400 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 800 m | – |
| GP practice | 500 m | – |
| Primary school | 600 m | – |
| Daycare | 400 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 1.1 |
| GP practices | – | 3 |
| Daycares | – | 5.6 |
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
Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o has 1,115 inhabitants (2026), or 782 per km² (74% lower than in Heemstede). Between 2021 and 2026 the population rose 3%, against no real change in Heemstede. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Heemstede was 86%, 8 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 29% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 3% between 2021 and 2026, to 1,115.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 782 residents per km², this buurt is 74% less densely populated than the municipality of Heemstede.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, almost no children were born; 36.7 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
25% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
41% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
77% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
61% of residents have a higher professional (hbo) or university (wo) education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Heemstede; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 86% of eligible voters in Heemstede voted. The largest party was D66 with 29% 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
Van Merlenbuurt en Valkenburgerplein e.o has an average of 1.3 cars per household, 18% higher than in Heemstede (1.1). 29% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 4 percentage points more than in Heemstede (25%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 65 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
29% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 25% in the municipality of Heemstede (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 18% to 29% 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, 545 passenger cars and 35 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
92% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is assembly (2%).
Based on 598 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
Average WOZ value €853,000, 114% higher than nationally (€398,000).
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
| Heemsteedse Dreef, Schildersbuurt e.o. | 5,190 | €1,126,000 | 31 |
| Zandvoortselaan en Berkenrode e.o. | 2,145 | €799,000 | 89 |
| Kennemerduin en omgeving | 1,190 | €621,000 | 27 |
| Rivierenbuurt | 1,790 | €611,000 | 30 |
| Schouwbroekerpolder | 1,450 | €587,000 | 27 |
| Centrum | 3,670 | €568,000 | 51 |
| Geleerdenbuurt | 1,825 | €554,000 | 19 |
| Oude Dorp, Indische buurt en omgeving | 4,445 | €538,000 | 28 |
| Provincienbuurt | 920 | €365,000 | 25 |