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The population is growing faster than in Leeuwarden. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Leeuwarden, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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The average WOZ value in De Waag is €206,000, 22% lower than in Leeuwarden (€263,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 36%, against a rise of 44% in Leeuwarden. 15% of the homes are owner-occupied, 36 percentage points less than in Leeuwarden (51%).
The average WOZ value rose 36% between 2021 and 2025, to €206,000.
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: ~€219 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Leeuwarden's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 60th 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
De Waag has the 3rd-highest WOZ value of the 8 buurten in Binnenstad.
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: €206,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Waag | 206,000 | 781 | – |
| Nieuwestad | 202,000 | 290 | – |
| Oldehove | 236,000 | 399 | – |
| Grote Kerkbuurt | 205,000 | 922 | – |
| Hoek | 146,000 | 945 | – |
| Blokhuisplein | 127,000 | 517 | – |
| Zaailand | 254,000 | 371 | – |
| Stationskwartier | 85,000 | 718 | – |
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 private rent, at 77% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
86% 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
86% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 27% in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
Based on 808 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, 309 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in De Waag, 5.7 times as high as in Leeuwarden (54). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 29%, against a rise of 16% in Leeuwarden. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, De Waag registered 309 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 54 in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
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, De Waag registered 309 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 54 in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
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 De Waag is 'Theft and burglary': 162.7 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 25.3 in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
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: 4.3 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 4.2 in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
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 De Waag registered 5 traffic accidents, of which 2 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 77% of adults in De Waag rate their own health as good, 4 percentage points more than in Leeuwarden. Fewer adults are overweight (29% against 50%), but more smoke (30% against 19%), more report anxiety or depression (56% against 46%) and more drink excessively (12% against 6%). Built-up land is the largest land use in De Waag, covering 92% of the area, against 11% in Leeuwarden.
An estimated 77% of adults rate their own health as good, against 73% in the municipality of Leeuwarden (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
0% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 9% in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
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 | 1,000 m | – |
| Primary school | 700 m | – |
| Daycare | 500 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 4.3 |
| GP practices | – | 0.6 |
| Daycares | – | 1.1 |
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
De Waag has 1,320 inhabitants (2026), or 11,220 per km² (20.5 times as high as in Leeuwarden). Between 2021 and 2026 the population rose 25%, against a rise of 5% in Leeuwarden. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Leeuwarden was 78%, in line with the national figure. Of the parties that are largest nationally, GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) had the highest share there: 18% of the vote, against 13% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 25% between 2021 and 2026, to 1,320.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 11,220 residents per km², this buurt is 20 times as densely populated as the municipality of Leeuwarden.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 3.8 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
42% of residents are between 15 and 25.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
84% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
66% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Leeuwarden; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 78% of eligible voters in Leeuwarden voted. The largest party was GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) 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
De Waag has an average of 0.3 cars per household, 67% lower than in Leeuwarden (0.9). 22% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points less than in Leeuwarden (24%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 205 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
22% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 24% in the municipality of Leeuwarden (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 26% 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, 315 passenger cars and 20 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
72% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is retail (16%).
Based on 1,120 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
11,220 residents per km²: 21 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
| Zaailand | 525 | €254,000 | 421 |
| Oldehove | 565 | €236,000 | 167 |
| Grote Kerkbuurt | 1,325 | €205,000 | 67 |
| Nieuwestad | 450 | €202,000 | 420 |
| Hoek | 1,360 | €146,000 | 102 |
| Blokhuisplein | 625 | €127,000 | 123 |
| Stationskwartier | 795 | €85,000 | 343 |