Homes cost more than the Noardeast-Fryslân average.
The average WOZ value in Aalsum is €433,000, 47% higher than in Noardeast-Fryslân (€294,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 39%, against a rise of 52% in Noardeast-Fryslân. 83% of the homes are owner-occupied, 16 percentage points more than in Noardeast-Fryslân (67%).
Key figures
Average WOZ value
€433,000
▲47% higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (€294,000)
Rise in WOZ value since 2021
+39%
▼lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (+52%)
More figures
Owner-occupied dwellings
83%
▲16 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (67%)
Social housing
0%
▼24 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (24%)
Private rent
17%
▲8 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (9%)
Single-family dwellings
100%
▲11 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (89%)
Built 1965–1974
4%
▼16 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (20%)
Built 1975–1991
11%
▼8 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (19%)
Built 1992–2005
7%
▼5 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (12%)
Average WOZ value
€433,000
▲47% higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (€294,000)
Rise in WOZ value since 2021
+39%
▼lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (+52%)
More figures
Owner-occupied dwellings
83%
▲16 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (67%)
Social housing
0%
▼24 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (24%)
Private rent
17%
▲8 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (9%)
Single-family dwellings
100%
▲11 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (89%)
Built 1965–1974
4%
▼16 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (20%)
Built 1975–1991
11%
▼8 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (19%)
Built 1992–2005
7%
▼5 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (12%)
WOZ value per year
The average WOZ value rose 39% between 2021 and 2025, to €433,000.
Average WOZ value, 2025
€433,000▲ 47% above Noardeast-Fryslân
+39% since 2021
Noardeast-Fryslân +52%
Explanation
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
Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€630 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
€630/ month
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
364 m² · measured buurt average
WOZ €433,000 · average here
Levies you'll be billed€133NL median
Property tax (OZB)€48€38
Water board levy€44–
Waste levy€21€27
Sewage levy€20€22
Costs to set aside€497
Maintenance reserve€464–
Buildings insurance€33–
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Noardeast-Fryslân's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 180th of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.
cheapestdearest
Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.
Explanation
The home: one typical home of 364 m² (measured average in this buurt) with the average WOZ value here, €433,000.
Levies: Noardeast-Fryslân's own OZB, sewage and waste rates for 2026. The water board levy uses national average rates.
Set aside: maintenance at 0.85% and buildings insurance at 0.06% a year of the rebuild cost (€1,800 per m²).
NL median: what the same home would pay in the middle gemeente. Gemeenten where a regional body collects the waste levy are left out.
Not included: mortgage and energy. These are estimates, not actual bills.
Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026
Dwelling value ladder
Aalsum has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 6 buurten in Metslawier.
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)
WOZ value and age structure
Here: €433,000 average WOZ value.
Value
Dwellings
Aged 65+
Aalsum
433,000
46
–
Metslawier
231,000
398
–
Niawier
289,000
142
–
Wetsens
433,000
23
–
Oostrum
305,000
48
–
Verspreide huizen Oostrum
376,000
28
–
Explanation
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)
Dwellings by ownership
The largest category is owner-occupied, at 83% of dwellings.
Owner-occupied83%
Private rent17%
Explanation
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Dwellings by type
100% of the dwelling stock is single-family homes.
Single-family homes100%
Explanation
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Dwellings by build period
65% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 29% in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
Before 194565.2%
1945-19646.5%
1965-19744.3%
1975-199110.9%
1992-20056.5%
2006-20152.2%
2016 and later4.3%
Explanation
Based on 46 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
02 · Safety
Too few residents for a rate per resident: these are counts.
Aalsum has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 0 crimes were registered, against 1 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
Key figures
Registered crimes, 2025
0
▼down from 1 in 2021
Home burglary
0
2023–2025
Registered crimes, 2025
0
▼down from 1 in 2021
Home burglary
0
2023–2025
Registered crime per year
0 crimes were registered in Aalsum in 2025 (1 in 2021).
Registered crimes, 2025
0
down from 1 in 2021
Explanation
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200) — registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED.
In 2024, police in Aalsum registered 2 traffic accidents, of which 0 with injury and none fatal.
2020
2022
2024
FatalInjuryMaterial damage only
Explanation
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
03 · Living environment
Green space is below the Noardeast-Fryslân average.
Agricultural land is the largest land use in Aalsum, covering 97% of the area, against 57% in Noardeast-Fryslân.
Key figures
Green (parks, sport, nature)
0%
▼11 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (11%)
Agriculture, share of the area
97%
▲40 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (57%)
Water, share of the area
1%
▼26 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (27%)
Forest and nature, share of the area
0%
▼10 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (10%)
Green (parks, sport, nature)
0%
▼11 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (11%)
Agriculture, share of the area
97%
▲40 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (57%)
Water, share of the area
1%
▼26 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (27%)
Forest and nature, share of the area
0%
▼10 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (10%)
Land use
0% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 11% in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
Traffic2.1%
Agriculture96.8%
Water1.1%
Explanation
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
Distance to amenities
A primary school lies here at an average road distance of 1500 m.
Distance
Value
Large supermarket
1,600 m
–
GP practice
3,100 m
–
Primary school
1,500 m
–
Daycare
1,600 m
–
Large supermarkets
–
0.1
GP practices
–
0
Daycares
–
0.1
Explanation
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
04 · Residents
The population is shrinking, while it grows in Noardeast-Fryslân.
Aalsum has 120 inhabitants (2026), or 27 per km² (78% lower than in Noardeast-Fryslân). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân was 82%, 4 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, CDA had the highest share there: 21% of the vote, against 12% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
Key figures
Population growth since 2021
-4%
▼lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (+1%)
Turnout, municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân
82%
▲4 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (78%)
More figures
Growth of the dwelling stock
+2%
=about the same as Noardeast-Fryslân (+2%)
Married
57%
▲16 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (41%)
Dutch origin
92%
=about the same as Noardeast-Fryslân (92%)
CDA, share of the vote
21%
▲9 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (12%)
Population growth since 2021
-4%
▼lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (+1%)
Turnout, municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân
82%
▲4 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (78%)
More figures
Growth of the dwelling stock
+2%
=about the same as Noardeast-Fryslân (+2%)
Married
57%
▲16 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (41%)
Dutch origin
92%
=about the same as Noardeast-Fryslân (92%)
CDA, share of the vote
21%
▲9 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (12%)
Population per year
The population shrank 4% between 2021 and 2026, to 120.
Residents, 2026
120
-4% since 2021
Noardeast-Fryslân +1%
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
Density
With 27 residents per km², this buurt is 78% less densely populated than the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
Residents per km²27
Dwellings per km²10.6
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
Births and deaths per 1,000 residents
In 2025, almost no children were born; almost no one died.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
BirthsDeaths
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Residents by age group
29% of residents are between 65 and 80.
0 to 1515
15 to 2515
25 to 4525
45 to 6525
65 to 8035
80 and over5
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
Marital status
56% of residents are married.
Never married45
Married65
Widowed5
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
Residents by country of origin
92% of residents have Dutch origin.
Netherlands110
Europe (excluding the Netherlands)5
Outside Europe5
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
Parliamentary election
These figures are for the whole municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 82% of eligible voters in Noardeast-Fryslân voted. The largest party was CDA with 21% of the valid votes.
Municipality of Noardeast-FryslânThe Netherlands
D66
8.3%
16.9%
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)
20.2%
16.7%
VVD
9.4%
14.2%
GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
7.3%
12.8%
CDA
20.7%
11.8%
JA21
5.8%
5.9%
Forum voor Democratie
8.2%
4.5%
BBB
6.3%
2.6%
Other
13.8%
14.4%
Explanation
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
05 · More figures
More figures
23% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points less than in Noardeast-Fryslân (25%).
Key figures
Agriculture, forestry and fishing, share of businesses
50%
▲38 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (12%)
Industry and energy, share of businesses
0%
▼20 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (20%)
Trade and hospitality, share of businesses
0%
▼19 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (19%)
Cars not on petrol (2025)
25%
=about the same as Noardeast-Fryslân (25%)
Change in cars not on petrol since 2021
−4 pp
▼lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (−2 pp)
Residential, share of addresses
92%
▲8 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (84%)
Industrial, share of addresses
14%
▲6 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (8%)
Lodging, share of addresses
2%
▼1 percentage point lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (3%)
Single-family dwellings
100%
▲37 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (63%)
Owner-occupied dwellings
83%
▲26 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (57%)
Private rent
17%
▲3 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (14%)
Agriculture, forestry and fishing, share of businesses
50%
▲38 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (12%)
Industry and energy, share of businesses
0%
▼20 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (20%)
Trade and hospitality, share of businesses
0%
▼19 percentage points lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (19%)
Cars not on petrol (2025)
25%
=about the same as Noardeast-Fryslân (25%)
Change in cars not on petrol since 2021
−4 pp
▼lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (−2 pp)
Residential, share of addresses
92%
▲8 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (84%)
Industrial, share of addresses
14%
▲6 percentage points higher than Noardeast-Fryslân (8%)
Lodging, share of addresses
2%
▼1 percentage point lower than Noardeast-Fryslân (3%)
Single-family dwellings
100%
▲37 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (63%)
Owner-occupied dwellings
83%
▲26 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (57%)
Private rent
17%
▲3 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (14%)
Business establishments by sector
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 10 establishments.
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij10
Nijverheid en energie0
Handel en horeca0
Vervoer, informatie en communicatie0
Financiële diensten, onroerend goed0
Zakelijke dienstverlening5
Overheid, onderwijs en zorg0
Cultuur, recreatie, overige diensten5
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Passenger cars by fuel type
25% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 25% in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân (2025).
Petrol75%
Other fuel (diesel, LPG, electric etc.)25%
Explanation
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
Share on other fuel per year
The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 29% to 25% between 2021 and 2025.
Share on other fuel, 2025
25%– about the same as Noardeast-Fryslân (25%)
-4 pp since 2021
Noardeast-Fryslân -1 pp
Explanation
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
Vehicles by kind
In 2025, 65 passenger cars and 5 motorcycles were registered here.
Passenger cars65
Motorcycles5
Explanation
At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Addresses by building use
92% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (14%).
Residential92%
Assembly2%
Industrial14%
Lodging2%
Other4%
Explanation
Based on 50 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
Biggest difference from the Netherlands
27 residents per km²: 95% less densely populated than the Dutch average.
This areaThe Netherlands
Residents per km²27
NL 539▼ −95% vs NL
Single-family dwellings100%
NL 63%▲ +59% vs NL
Owner-occupied dwellings83%
NL 57%▲ +46% vs NL
Private rent17%
NL 14%▲ +21% vs NL
Average WOZ value€433,000
NL €398,000▲ +9% vs NL
Explanation
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