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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.
6,955 residents,
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Binnenstad is €174,000, 34% lower than in Leeuwarden (€263,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 54%, against a rise of 95% in Leeuwarden. 13% of the homes are owner-occupied, 38 percentage points less than in Leeuwarden (51%).
The average WOZ value rose 54% between 2014 and 2025, to €174,000.
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: ~€250 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 57th 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
Binnenstad has the 2nd-lowest WOZ value of the 22 wijken in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
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: €174,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binnenstad | 174,000 | 4,943 | – |
| Potmargezone | 215,000 | 4,784 | – |
| Oud-Oost | 199,000 | 7,233 | – |
| Sonnenborgh e.o. | 241,000 | 4,761 | – |
| Westeinde e.o. | 263,000 | 1,798 | – |
| Vossepark & Helicon | 295,000 | 2,489 | – |
| Huizum-West | 222,000 | 3,607 | – |
| Nijlân & De Zwette | 199,000 | 2,505 | – |
| Heechterp & Schieringen | 166,000 | 2,167 | – |
| Camminghaburen e.o. | 291,000 | 4,889 | – |
| Bilgaard & Havankpark e.o. | 212,000 | 3,763 | – |
| Vrijheidswijk | 213,000 | 1,867 | – |
| Dokkumer Ie e.o. | 404,000 | 1,497 | – |
| Stiens e.o. | 300,000 | 3,781 | – |
| Aldlân & De Hemrik | 257,000 | 3,605 | – |
| Goutum | 452,000 | 1,297 | – |
| Hempens/Teerns & Zuiderburen | 496,000 | 2,090 | – |
| De Zuidlanden | 480,000 | 1,321 | – |
| Middelsee | 379,000 | 71 | – |
| Dorpen Zuid-Oost | 317,000 | 1,767 | – |
| Dorpen Zuid-West | 339,000 | 1,718 | – |
| Grou e.o. | 320,000 | 3,926 | – |
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 62% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
91% 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
52% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 27% in the municipality of Leeuwarden.
Based on 5,012 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, 213 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Binnenstad, 3.9 times as high as in Leeuwarden (54). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 33%, against a rise of 16% in Leeuwarden. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Binnenstad registered 213 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, Binnenstad registered 213 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 Binnenstad is 'Theft and burglary': 110.3 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: 3.8 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 Binnenstad registered 44 traffic accidents, of which 16 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 Binnenstad rate their own health as good, 1 percentage point more than in Leeuwarden. Fewer adults are overweight (33% against 50%), but more report anxiety or depression (58% against 46%), more smoke (29% against 19%) and more meet the physical activity guideline (60% against 53%).
An estimated 74% 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
Binnenstad has 6,955 inhabitants (2026), or 8,195 per km² (15.0 times as high as in Leeuwarden). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 41%, against a rise of 21% 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 41% between 2014 and 2026, to 6,955.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 8,195 residents per km², this wijk is 15 times as densely populated as the municipality of Leeuwarden.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 3.6 children were born per 1,000 residents; 4.3 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
39% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
82% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
69% 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
Binnenstad has an average of 0.4 cars per household, 56% lower than in Leeuwarden (0.9). 23% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 1 percentage point less than in Leeuwarden (24%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 580 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
23% 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 27% to 23% between 2014 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, 1,905 passenger cars and 115 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
82% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is retail (8%).
Based on 6,079 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
8,195 residents per km²: 15 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 |
| De Waag | 1,320 | €206,000 | 309 |
| 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 |