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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Noardeast-Fryslân. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Metslawier is €283,000, 4% lower than in Noardeast-Fryslân (€294,000). Between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 62%, against a rise of 72% in Noardeast-Fryslân. 77% of the homes are owner-occupied, 10 percentage points more than in Noardeast-Fryslân (67%).
The average WOZ value rose 62% between 2019 and 2025, to €283,000.
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: ~€330 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Noardeast-Fryslân's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 135th 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
Metslawier has the 5th-lowest WOZ value of the 15 wijken in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
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: €283,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metslawier | 283,000 | 725 | – |
| Dokkum | 299,000 | 6,178 | – |
| Ee - Zuidoost | 291,000 | 627 | – |
| Anjum - Noordoost | 291,000 | 755 | – |
| Oosternijkerk - Noordwest | 287,000 | 509 | – |
| Ternaard | 245,000 | 1,196 | – |
| Holwerd | 269,000 | 1,030 | – |
| Hantum | 328,000 | 310 | – |
| Bouwstreek | 263,000 | 1,919 | – |
| Zuidwest | 275,000 | 1,181 | – |
| 10 | 363,000 | 785 | – |
| Kollum | 296,000 | 2,697 | – |
| Oost | 292,000 | 831 | – |
| Noordwest | 378,000 | 696 | – |
| Zuidwest | 311,000 | 1,562 | – |
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 77% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
89% 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 before 1945, against 29% in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
Based on 700 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, 8 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Metslawier, 64% lower than in Noardeast-Fryslân (22). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 38%, against a fall of 1% in Noardeast-Fryslân. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Metslawier registered 8 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 22 in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
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, Metslawier registered 8 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 22 in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
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 Metslawier is 'Theft and burglary': 2.5 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 5.4 in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
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: 1.4 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 1.5 in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
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 Metslawier registered 17 traffic accidents, of which 2 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 78% of adults in Metslawier rate their own health as good, 3 percentage points more than in Noardeast-Fryslân. Fewer adults report anxiety or depression (37% against 40%), fewer meet the physical activity guideline (44% against 47%), fewer feel lonely (42% against 44%) and fewer smoke (17% against 18%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Metslawier, covering 93% of the area, against 57% in Noardeast-Fryslân. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 1% of the area, 10 percentage points below the 11% in Noardeast-Fryslân.
An estimated 78% of adults rate their own health as good, against 75% in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân (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
1% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 11% in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
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
Metslawier has 1,575 inhabitants (2026), or 72 per km² (41% lower than in Noardeast-Fryslân). Between 2019 and 2026 the population fell 5%, against a rise of 2% 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.
The population shrank 5% between 2019 and 2026, to 1,575.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 72 residents per km², this wijk is 41% less densely populated than the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 9.4 children were born per 1,000 residents; 18.9 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
27% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
44% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
96% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
53% 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 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.
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
Metslawier has an average of 1.5 cars per household, 15% higher than in Noardeast-Fryslân (1.3). 26% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 1 percentage point more than in Noardeast-Fryslân (25%).
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 40 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
26% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 25% in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân (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 31% to 26% between 2019 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, 940 passenger cars and 140 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
87% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (6%).
Based on 802 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
72 residents per km²: 87% less densely populated than 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
| Aalsum | 120 | €433,000 | – |
| Wetsens | 50 | €433,000 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Oostrum | 50 | €376,000 | – |
| Oostrum | 130 | €305,000 | – |
| Niawier | 315 | €289,000 | 10 |
| Metslawier | 805 | €231,000 | 2 |
| Verspreide huizen Niawier | 30 | – | – |
| Verspreide huizen Metslawier | 25 | – | – |
| Jouswier | 45 | – | – |