The population is shrinking, while it grows in Houten. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Houten, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Borchen is €596,000, 13% higher than in Houten (€526,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 33%, against a rise of 39% in Houten. 83% of the homes are owner-occupied, 16 percentage points more than in Houten (67%).
The average WOZ value rose 33% between 2021 and 2025, to €596,000.
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: ~€342 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Houten's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 67th 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
Borchen has the highest WOZ value of the 10 buurten in Houten Noord-West.
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: €596,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borchen | 596,000 | 380 | – |
| Oorden | 574,000 | 455 | – |
| Oude Dorp | 563,000 | 897 | – |
| Hoven | 510,000 | 383 | – |
| Gaarden | 540,000 | 569 | – |
| Hoeven | 427,000 | 915 | – |
| Erven | 583,000 | 491 | – |
| Poorten | 525,000 | 494 | – |
| Slagen | 497,000 | 701 | – |
| Campen | 498,000 | 741 | – |
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 83% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
96% 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
89% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 39% in the municipality of Houten.
Based on 380 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, 11 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Borchen, 65% lower than in Houten (31). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 63%, against a rise of 2% in Houten. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Borchen registered 11 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 31 in the municipality of Houten.
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, Borchen registered 11 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 31 in the municipality of Houten.
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 Borchen is 'Vandalism and public order': 5.4 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 2.9 in the municipality of Houten.
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: 5.3 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.1 in the municipality of Houten.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
An estimated 82% of adults in Borchen rate their own health as good, 4 percentage points more than in Houten. More adults meet the physical activity guideline (56% against 49%), but fewer feel lonely (36% against 42%), fewer report anxiety or depression (37% against 43%) and fewer smoke (9% against 12%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Borchen, covering 94% of the area, against 16% in Houten. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 6% of the area, 1 percentage point below the 7% in Houten.
An estimated 82% of adults rate their own health as good, against 78% in the municipality of Houten (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
6% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 7% in the municipality of Houten.
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 large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 200 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 200 m | – |
| GP practice | 3,200 m | – |
| Primary school | 400 m | – |
| Daycare | 1,600 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 1 |
| 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
Borchen has 935 inhabitants (2026), or 5,998 per km² (6.5 times as high as in Houten). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 3%, against a rise of 1% in Houten. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Houten was 86%, 8 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 21% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 3% between 2021 and 2026, to 935.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 5,998 residents per km², this buurt is 6.5 times as densely populated as the municipality of Houten.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 10.8 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
29% of residents are between 65 and 80.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
55% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
85% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
53% 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 Houten; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 86% of eligible voters in Houten voted. The largest party was D66 with 21% 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
Borchen has an average of 1.2 cars per household. 34% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 20 percentage points less than in Houten (54%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 50 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
33% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 54% in the municipality of Houten (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 22% to 33% 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, 475 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
99% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is retail (0.3%).
Based on 385 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
5,998 residents per km²: 11 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