The population is growing faster than in Noordoostpolder. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Noordoostpolder, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Espel is €403,000, 19% higher than in Noordoostpolder (€340,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 112%, against a rise of 93% in Noordoostpolder. 77% of the homes are owner-occupied, 11 percentage points more than in Noordoostpolder (66%).
The average WOZ value rose 112% between 2014 and 2025, to €403,000.
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: ~€307 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Noordoostpolder's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 110th 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
Espel has the 5th-highest WOZ value of the 11 wijken in the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
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: €403,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Espel | 403,000 | 639 | – |
| Emmeloord | 319,000 | 12,092 | – |
| Bant | 408,000 | 625 | – |
| Luttelgeest | 275,000 | 1,119 | – |
| Marknesse | 356,000 | 1,689 | – |
| Kraggenburg | 398,000 | 640 | – |
| Ens | 332,000 | 1,469 | – |
| Nagele | 368,000 | 868 | – |
| Tollebeek | 423,000 | 845 | – |
| Creil | 407,000 | 700 | – |
| Rutten | 405,000 | 673 | – |
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
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
44% of dwellings were built between 1945 and 1964, against 27% in the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
Based on 672 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 Espel, 60% lower than in Noordoostpolder (30). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 58%, against a fall of 7% in Noordoostpolder. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Espel registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 30 in the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
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, Espel registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 30 in the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
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 Espel is 'Theft and burglary': 2.9 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 11.0 in the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
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: 1.6 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 2.4 in the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
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 Espel registered 5 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 Espel rate their own health as good, 3 percentage points more than in Noordoostpolder. Fewer adults feel lonely (41% against 46%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (38% against 41%), but more drink excessively (8% against 5%) and more are overweight (55% against 54%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Espel, covering 95% of the area, against 68% in Noordoostpolder. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 1% of the area, 4 percentage points below the 5% in Noordoostpolder.
An estimated 78% of adults rate their own health as good, against 75% in the municipality of Noordoostpolder (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
0.7% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 5% in the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
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
Espel has 1,745 inhabitants (2026), or 52 per km² (54% lower than in Noordoostpolder). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 27%, against a rise of 12% in Noordoostpolder. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Noordoostpolder was 82%, 4 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, CDA had the highest share there: 17% of the vote, against 12% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 27% between 2014 and 2026, to 1,745.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 52 residents per km², this wijk is 54% less densely populated than the municipality of Noordoostpolder.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 14.4 children were born per 1,000 residents; 2.9 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
28% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
51% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
84% 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 Noordoostpolder; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 82% of eligible voters in Noordoostpolder voted. The largest party was CDA 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
Espel has an average of 1.3 cars per household, about the same as in Noordoostpolder (1.3). 30% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), about the same as in Noordoostpolder (30%).
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 110 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
30% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 30% in the municipality of Noordoostpolder (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 33% to 30% 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, 925 passenger cars and 100 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
81% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (22%).
Based on 825 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
| Espel-landelijk gebied | 645 | – |
| Espel-bedrijventerrein | 15 | – |
| Espel-woonkern | 1,085 | – |