The population is growing about as fast as in Ooststellingwerf. Homes cost less 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-Toogwijk is €288,000, 8% lower than in Ooststellingwerf (€312,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 40%, against a rise of 30% in Ooststellingwerf. 75% of the homes are owner-occupied, 7 percentage points more than in Ooststellingwerf (68%).
The average WOZ value rose 40% between 2021 and 2025, to €288,000.
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: ~€263 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 43rd 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-Toogwijk has the 4th-lowest 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: €288,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appelscha-Toogwijk | 288,000 | 176 | – |
| 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-Noord | 358,000 | 192 | – |
| Appelscha-Steegdenhal | 273,000 | 188 | – |
| 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 75% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
94% 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
72% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 24% in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
Based on 176 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 Appelscha-Toogwijk, 60% lower than in Ooststellingwerf (20). Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Appelscha-Toogwijk registered 8 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-Toogwijk registered 8 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-Toogwijk is 'Fraud and scams': 7.7 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 73% of adults in Appelscha-Toogwijk rate their own health as good, 1 percentage point less than in Ooststellingwerf. More adults are overweight (59% against 55%) and more report anxiety or depression (41% against 40%), but fewer smoke (15% against 16%) and fewer feel lonely (44% against 45%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Appelscha-Toogwijk, covering 100% of the area, against 4% in Ooststellingwerf.
An estimated 73% 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
0% 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 1200 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,200 m | – |
| GP practice | 1,400 m | – |
| Primary school | 1,300 m | – |
| Daycare | 1,200 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| Daycares | – | 0.1 |
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-Toogwijk has 380 inhabitants (2026), or 3,521 per km² (30.4 times as high as in Ooststellingwerf). Between 2021 and 2026 the population rose 3%, 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 grew 3% between 2021 and 2026, to 380.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 3,521 residents per km², this buurt is 30 times as densely populated as the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 12.8 children were born per 1,000 residents; 12.8 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
32% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
47% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
93% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
72% 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-Toogwijk has an average of 1.4 cars per household, 8% higher than in Ooststellingwerf (1.3). 24% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 3 percentage points less than in Ooststellingwerf (27%).
Nijverheid en energie is the largest sector, with 5 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
24% 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 26% to 24% 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, 250 passenger cars and 25 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
91% of addresses are residential.
Based on 194 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
3,521 residents per km²: 6.5 times as densely populated as 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
| 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-Noord | 425 | €358,000 | 9 |
| Appelscha-Van Emstweg | 295 | €339,000 | 11 |
| Appelscha-Vaart | 605 | €295,000 | 20 |
| Appelscha-Steegdenhal | 370 | €273,000 | 13 |
| Appelscha-Midden Oost | 785 | €221,000 | 19 |
| Appelscha-Midden West | 315 | €200,000 | 22 |