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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Midden-Drenthe. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe, and registered crime per resident is lower.
3,355 residents,
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Bovensmilde is €319,000, 9% lower than in Midden-Drenthe (€351,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 79%, against a rise of 74% in Midden-Drenthe. 75% of the homes are owner-occupied, 4 percentage points more than in Midden-Drenthe (71%).
The average WOZ value rose 79% between 2014 and 2025, to €319,000.
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: ~€328 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Midden-Drenthe's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 122nd 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
Bovensmilde has the 2nd-lowest WOZ value of the 17 wijken in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
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: €319,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bovensmilde | 319,000 | 1,500 | – |
| Beilen | 343,000 | 5,194 | – |
| Hijken | 383,000 | 414 | – |
| Hooghalen | 399,000 | 582 | – |
| Wijster | 381,000 | 425 | – |
| Spier | 422,000 | 98 | – |
| Drijber | 438,000 | 140 | – |
| Smilde | 304,000 | 2,092 | – |
| Hoogersmilde | 334,000 | 698 | – |
| Westerbork | 367,000 | 2,298 | – |
| Elp | 457,000 | 199 | – |
| Witteveen | 369,000 | 251 | – |
| Nieuw-Balinge | 346,000 | 402 | – |
| Nieuweroord | 513,000 | 39 | – |
| Zwiggelte | 488,000 | 187 | – |
| Orvelte | 448,000 | 105 | – |
| De Broekstreek | 474,000 | 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 owner-occupied, at 75% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
95% 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
33% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 25% in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
Based on 1,499 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, 12 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Bovensmilde, 40% lower than in Midden-Drenthe (20). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 40%, against a fall of 28% in Midden-Drenthe. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Bovensmilde registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 20 in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
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, Bovensmilde registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 20 in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
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 Bovensmilde is 'Vandalism and public order': 3.9 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 1.9 in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
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: 0.7 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 2.6 in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
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 Bovensmilde registered 13 traffic accidents, of which 5 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 75% of adults in Bovensmilde rate their own health as good, 1 percentage point less than in Midden-Drenthe. More adults are overweight (58% against 56%), more smoke (16% against 15%), more feel lonely (43% against 42%) and more report anxiety or depression (40% against 39%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Bovensmilde, covering 84% of the area, against 72% in Midden-Drenthe. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 6% of the area, 13 percentage points below the 19% in Midden-Drenthe.
An estimated 75% of adults rate their own health as good, against 76% in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe (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 19% in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
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
Bovensmilde has 3,355 inhabitants (2026), or 218 per km² (2.2 times as high as in Midden-Drenthe). Between 2014 and 2026 the population fell 6%, against a rise of 3% in Midden-Drenthe. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe was 85%, 7 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 17% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 6% between 2014 and 2026, to 3,355.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 218 residents per km², this wijk is 2.2 times as densely populated as the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 7.5 children were born per 1,000 residents; 7.5 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
29% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
46% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
87% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
55% 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 Midden-Drenthe; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 85% of eligible voters in Midden-Drenthe voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 17% 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
Bovensmilde has an average of 1.3 cars per household, about the same as in Midden-Drenthe (1.3). 23% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 5 percentage points less than in Midden-Drenthe (28%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 75 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
23% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 28% in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe (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 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, 1,965 passenger cars and 300 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
94% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (3%).
Based on 1,595 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% multi-family dwellings, against 37% nationally.
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) 2025
| Verspreide huizen Bovensmilde | 210 | €475,000 | 10 |
| Bovensmilde-Noord | 170 | €417,000 | – |
| Bovensmilde-Zuid | 170 | €377,000 | – |
| Bovensmilde-Centrum | 2,800 | €298,000 | 11 |