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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Het Hogeland. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Het Hogeland.
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The average WOZ value in Lauwersmeer is €393,000, 39% higher than in Het Hogeland (€282,000). Between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 131%, against a rise of 32% in Het Hogeland. 92% of the homes are owner-occupied, 25 percentage points more than in Het Hogeland (67%).
The average WOZ value rose 131% between 2022 and 2025, to €393,000.
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: ~€370 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Het Hogeland's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 256th 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
Lauwersmeer has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 6 buurten in Ulrum.
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: €393,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lauwersmeer | 393,000 | 49 | – |
| Buitengebied Ulrum | 436,000 | 111 | – |
| Ulrum | 205,000 | 651 | – |
| Zoutkamp | 220,000 | 597 | – |
| Vierhuizen | 220,000 | 68 | – |
| Houwerzijl | 239,000 | 93 | – |
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
46% of dwellings were built between 1992 and 2005, against 14% in the municipality of Het Hogeland.
Based on 50 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
Lauwersmeer has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 30 crimes were registered, against 18 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
30 crimes were registered in Lauwersmeer in 2025 (18 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 Lauwersmeer is 'Violence and threats': 10 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 Lauwersmeer registered 2 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
An estimated 74% of adults in Lauwersmeer rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points more than in Het Hogeland. Fewer adults smoke (11% against 17%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (36% against 42%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (50% against 46%) and more are overweight (58% against 55%). Forest and natural land is the largest land use in Lauwersmeer, covering 88% of the area, against 5% in Het Hogeland. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 91% of the area, 85 percentage points above the 6% in Het Hogeland.
An estimated 74% of adults rate their own health as good, against 72% in the municipality of Het Hogeland (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
91% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 6% in the municipality of Het Hogeland.
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 gp practice lies here at an average road distance of 9200 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 9,300 m | – |
| GP practice | 9,200 m | – |
| Primary school | 9,300 m | – |
| Daycare | 9,300 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
Lauwersmeer has 140 inhabitants (2026), or 4 per km² (96% lower than in Het Hogeland). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Het Hogeland was 83%, 5 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, CDA had the highest share there: 16% of the vote, against 12% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 3% between 2022 and 2026, to 140.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 4 residents per km², this buurt is 96% less densely populated than the municipality of Het Hogeland.
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
44% of residents are between 65 and 80.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
59% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
93% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
57% of residents have a primary, vmbo or mbo1 level education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Het Hogeland; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 83% of eligible voters in Het Hogeland voted. The largest party was CDA with 16% 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
Lauwersmeer has an average of 1.4 cars per household, 17% higher than in Het Hogeland (1.2). 39% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 16 percentage points more than in Het Hogeland (23%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
39% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 23% in the municipality of Het Hogeland (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 48% to 39% between 2022 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, 115 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
7% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (56%).
Based on 701 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
4 residents per km²: 99% 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 Ulrum | 255 | €436,000 | 20 |
| Houwerzijl | 165 | €239,000 | – |
| Vierhuizen | 115 | €220,000 | – |
| Zoutkamp | 1,210 | €220,000 | 26 |
| Ulrum | 1,310 | €205,000 | 24 |