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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Ooststellingwerf. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Appelscha-Noord is €358,000, 15% higher than in Ooststellingwerf (€312,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 34%, against a rise of 30% in Ooststellingwerf. 96% of the homes are owner-occupied, 28 percentage points more than in Ooststellingwerf (68%).
The average WOZ value rose 34% between 2021 and 2025, to €358,000.
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: ~€296 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Ooststellingwerf's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 34th 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
Appelscha-Noord has the 5th-highest WOZ value of the 11 buurten in Appelscha.
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: €358,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appelscha-Noord | 358,000 | 192 | – |
| Appelscha-Bruggelaan | 377,000 | 98 | – |
| Appelscha-De Valouwe | 448,000 | 34 | – |
| Appelscha-Drentseweg | 381,000 | 114 | – |
| Appelscha-Midden Oost | 221,000 | 405 | – |
| Appelscha-Midden West | 200,000 | 182 | – |
| Appelscha-Steegdenhal | 273,000 | 188 | – |
| Appelscha-Toogwijk | 288,000 | 176 | – |
| Appelscha-Vaart | 295,000 | 312 | – |
| Appelscha-Van Emstweg | 339,000 | 143 | – |
| Appelscha-Buitengebied | 455,000 | 305 | – |
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 96% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
85% 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
90% of dwellings were built between 1992 and 2005, against 14% in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
Based on 192 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, 9 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Appelscha-Noord, 55% lower than in Ooststellingwerf (20). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 19%, against a fall of 11% in Ooststellingwerf. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Appelscha-Noord registered 9 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 20 in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
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, Appelscha-Noord registered 9 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 20 in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
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 Appelscha-Noord is 'Fraud and scams': 4.7 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 4.3 in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
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
An estimated 78% of adults in Appelscha-Noord rate their own health as good, 4 percentage points more than in Ooststellingwerf. Fewer adults smoke (10% against 16%), fewer feel lonely (41% against 45%), fewer are overweight (53% against 55%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (38% against 40%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Appelscha-Noord, covering 87% of the area, against 4% in Ooststellingwerf. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 7% of the area, 15 percentage points below the 22% in Ooststellingwerf.
An estimated 78% of adults rate their own health as good, against 74% in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf (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
7% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 22% in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
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
A large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 1700 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,700 m | – |
| GP practice | 1,900 m | – |
| Primary school | 1,800 m | – |
| Daycare | 1,700 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| Daycares | – | 0 |
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
Appelscha-Noord has 425 inhabitants (2026), or 2,885 per km² (24.9 times as high as in Ooststellingwerf). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 1%, against a rise of 2% in Ooststellingwerf. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf was 81%, 3 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 19% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 1% between 2021 and 2026, to 425.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 2,885 residents per km², this buurt is 25 times as densely populated as the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 11.8 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
31% 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
94% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
71% 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 Ooststellingwerf; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 81% of eligible voters in Ooststellingwerf voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 19% 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
Appelscha-Noord has an average of 1.5 cars per household, 15% higher than in Ooststellingwerf (1.3). 34% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 7 percentage points more than in Ooststellingwerf (27%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
34% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 27% in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf (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 28% to 34% between 2021 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, 290 passenger cars and 20 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
99% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is office (0.5%).
Based on 193 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
1% private rent, against 14% 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
| Appelscha-Buitengebied | 1,065 | €455,000 | 28 |
| Appelscha-De Valouwe | 150 | €448,000 | – |
| Appelscha-Drentseweg | 230 | €381,000 | 0 |
| Appelscha-Bruggelaan | 300 | €377,000 | 34 |
| Appelscha-Van Emstweg | 295 | €339,000 | 11 |
| Appelscha-Vaart | 605 | €295,000 | 20 |
| Appelscha-Toogwijk | 380 | €288,000 | 8 |
| Appelscha-Steegdenhal | 370 | €273,000 | 13 |
| Appelscha-Midden Oost | 785 | €221,000 | 19 |
| Appelscha-Midden West | 315 | €200,000 | 22 |