The population is growing slower than in Lelystad. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Lelystad, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Merenbuurt is €300,000, 14% lower than in Lelystad (€350,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 62%, against a rise of 54% in Lelystad. 32% of the homes are owner-occupied, 30 percentage points less than in Lelystad (62%).
The average WOZ value rose 62% between 2021 and 2025, to €300,000.
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: ~€283 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Lelystad's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 292nd 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
Merenbuurt has the 5th-highest WOZ value of the 10 buurten in Waterwijk-Landerijen.
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: €300,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merenbuurt | 300,000 | 428 | – |
| Wijkcentrum, Voorstraat | 265,000 | 261 | – |
| Getijdenbuurt, Sportpark Doggersbank | 275,000 | 354 | – |
| Zeeenbuurt | 241,000 | 574 | – |
| Zeestromen en Slotenbuurt | 290,000 | 443 | – |
| Rivierenbuurt | 295,000 | 679 | – |
| Landerijen Noord/West | 437,000 | 955 | – |
| Landerijen Zuid/West | 548,000 | 294 | – |
| Landerijen Noord/Oost | 622,000 | 434 | – |
| Landerijen Zuid/Oost | 534,000 | 225 | – |
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 social housing, at 67% 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 single-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
67% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 51% in the municipality of Lelystad.
Based on 428 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, 32 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Merenbuurt, 24% lower than in Lelystad (42). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 18%, against a fall of 10% in Lelystad. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Merenbuurt registered 32 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 42 in the municipality of Lelystad.
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, Merenbuurt registered 32 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 42 in the municipality of Lelystad.
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 Merenbuurt is 'Theft and burglary': 10.4 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 17.6 in the municipality of Lelystad.
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: 3.9 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.1 in the municipality of Lelystad.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2023, police in Merenbuurt registered 1 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) 2023
An estimated 62% of adults in Merenbuurt rate their own health as good, 9 percentage points less than in Lelystad. More adults report anxiety or depression (55% against 48%), more feel lonely (57% against 51%), more smoke (23% against 18%) and more are overweight (60% against 56%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Merenbuurt, covering 100% of the area, against 3% in Lelystad.
An estimated 62% of adults rate their own health as good, against 71% in the municipality of Lelystad (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 10% in the municipality of Lelystad.
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 | 400 m | – |
| Primary school | 300 m | – |
| Daycare | 400 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 2 |
| GP practices | – | 1 |
| Daycares | – | 6.7 |
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
Merenbuurt has 1,075 inhabitants (2026), or 8,376 per km² (22.9 times as high as in Lelystad). Between 2021 and 2026 the population rose 1%, against a rise of 7% in Lelystad. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Lelystad was 69%, 9 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 22% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population held steady between 2021 and 2026, at 1,075.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 8,376 residents per km², this buurt is 23 times as densely populated as the municipality of Lelystad.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 4.7 children were born per 1,000 residents; 4.7 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
26% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
60% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
45% of residents have origin outside Europe.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
72% of residents have a havo, vwo or mbo2-4 level education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Lelystad; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 69% of eligible voters in Lelystad voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 22% 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
Merenbuurt has an average of 0.9 cars per household, 18% lower than in Lelystad (1.1). 22% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 5 percentage points less than in Lelystad (27%).
Overheid, onderwijs en zorg is the largest sector, with 25 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
22% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 27% in the municipality of Lelystad (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 24% 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, 385 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 education (0.2%).
Based on 431 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
8,376 residents per km²: 16 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
| Landerijen Noord/Oost | 1,320 | €622,000 | 11 |
| Landerijen Zuid/West | 870 | €548,000 | 15 |
| Landerijen Zuid/Oost | 715 | €534,000 | 8 |
| Landerijen Noord/West | 2,550 | €437,000 | 12 |
| Rivierenbuurt | 1,520 | €295,000 | 25 |
| Zeestromen en Slotenbuurt | 1,015 | €290,000 | 31 |
| Getijdenbuurt, Sportpark Doggersbank | 795 | €275,000 | 39 |
| Wijkcentrum, Voorstraat | 545 | €265,000 | 73 |
| Zeeenbuurt | 1,210 | €241,000 | 45 |
| Bedrijventerrein Ketelmeerstraat | 0 | – | – |