The population is shrinking, while it grows in Midden-Groningen. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Midden-Groningen, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Kropswolde is €616,000, 2.1 times as high as in Midden-Groningen (€295,000). Between 2018 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 70%, against a rise of 93% in Midden-Groningen. 92% of the homes are owner-occupied, 30 percentage points more than in Midden-Groningen (62%).
The average WOZ value rose 70% between 2018 and 2025, to €616,000.
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: ~€383 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Midden-Groningen's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 322nd 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
Kropswolde has the highest WOZ value of the 21 wijken in the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
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: €616,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kropswolde | 616,000 | 693 | – |
| Foxham en Hoogezand-Noord | 232,000 | 3,858 | – |
| Hoogezand-Zuid | 210,000 | 5,508 | – |
| Kalkwijk | 376,000 | 1,644 | – |
| Sappemeer | 279,000 | 3,813 | – |
| Kiel-Windeweer | 377,000 | 362 | – |
| Foxhol | 218,000 | 448 | – |
| Westerbroek en Waterhuizen | 356,000 | 392 | – |
| Harkstede, Scharmer en Woudbloem | 421,000 | 1,532 | – |
| Kolham | 321,000 | 602 | – |
| Froombosch | 362,000 | 369 | – |
| Slochteren | 298,000 | 1,080 | – |
| Schildwolde | 372,000 | 709 | – |
| Hellum | 358,000 | 244 | – |
| Siddeburen | 309,000 | 1,495 | – |
| Eemskanaal-Zuid | 431,000 | 352 | – |
| Tjuchem en Steendam | 379,000 | 213 | – |
| Muntendam | 262,000 | 2,282 | – |
| Noordbroek | 313,000 | 829 | – |
| Zuidbroek | 307,000 | 1,631 | – |
| Meeden | 324,000 | 777 | – |
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 92% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
98% 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
39% of dwellings were built between 1992 and 2005, against 15% in the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
Based on 696 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, 30 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Kropswolde, 3% lower than in Midden-Groningen (31). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 16%, against a fall of 19% in Midden-Groningen. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Kropswolde registered 30 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 31 in the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
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, Kropswolde registered 30 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 31 in the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
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 Kropswolde is 'Theft and burglary': 15.9 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 12.8 in the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
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 2.0 in the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
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 Kropswolde registered 12 traffic accidents, of which 3 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 80% of adults in Kropswolde rate their own health as good, 11 percentage points more than in Midden-Groningen. More adults meet the physical activity guideline (54% against 43%), but fewer report anxiety or depression (34% against 44%), fewer are overweight (49% against 58%) and fewer feel lonely (40% against 49%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Kropswolde, covering 38% of the area, against 75% in Midden-Groningen. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 27% of the area, 19 percentage points above the 8% in Midden-Groningen.
An estimated 80% of adults rate their own health as good, against 69% in the municipality of Midden-Groningen (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
27% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 8% in the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
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
Kropswolde has 1,605 inhabitants (2026), or 144 per km² (35% lower than in Midden-Groningen). Between 2018 and 2026 the population fell 2%, against a rise of 1% in Midden-Groningen. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Midden-Groningen was 75%, 3 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 23% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 2% between 2018 and 2026, to 1,605.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 144 residents per km², this wijk is 35% less densely populated than the municipality of Midden-Groningen.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 6.3 children were born per 1,000 residents; 9.5 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
36% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
49% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
89% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
43% 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 Midden-Groningen; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 75% of eligible voters in Midden-Groningen voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 23% 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
Kropswolde has an average of 1.6 cars per household, 33% higher than in Midden-Groningen (1.2). 36% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 13 percentage points more than in Midden-Groningen (23%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 95 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
36% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 23% in the municipality of Midden-Groningen (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 36% between 2018 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, 1,145 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
73% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (22%).
Based on 956 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
2% 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
| Meerwijck | 940 | €771,000 | 5 |
| Kropswolde | 355 | €417,000 | 39 |
| Kropswolde Recreatiegebied | 290 | €308,000 | 108 |
| Kropswolde Buitengebied | 20 | – | – |