The population is growing faster than in Ooststellingwerf. Homes cost about the same as the average in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Appelscha is €313,000, about the same as in Ooststellingwerf (€312,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 47%, against a rise of 73% in Ooststellingwerf. 64% of the homes are owner-occupied, 4 percentage points less than in Ooststellingwerf (68%).
The average WOZ value rose 47% between 2014 and 2025, to €313,000.
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: ~€280 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 39th 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 has the 3rd-lowest WOZ value of the 13 wijken in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
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: €313,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appelscha | 313,000 | 2,149 | – |
| Donkerbroek | 352,000 | 808 | – |
| Elsloo | 412,000 | 278 | – |
| Fochteloo | 449,000 | 157 | – |
| Haule | 418,000 | 233 | – |
| Haulerwijk | 306,000 | 1,424 | – |
| Langedijke | 447,000 | 123 | – |
| Makkinga | 364,000 | 433 | – |
| Nijeberkoop | 428,000 | 115 | – |
| Oldeberkoop | 358,000 | 663 | – |
| Oosterwolde | 267,000 | 4,629 | – |
| Ravenswoud | 436,000 | 162 | – |
| Waskemeer | 352,000 | 332 | – |
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 64% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
88% 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
25% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 24% in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
Based on 2,188 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, 18 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Appelscha, 10% lower than in Ooststellingwerf (20). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents stayed about level, against a fall of 11% in Ooststellingwerf. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Appelscha registered 18 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 registered 18 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 is 'Fraud and scams': 4.8 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
Home burglary 2023-2025: 2.0 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 2.0 in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
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 Appelscha registered 28 traffic accidents, of which 6 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 72% of adults in Appelscha rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points less than in Ooststellingwerf. More adults are overweight (56% against 55%) and more report anxiety or depression (41% against 40%), but fewer meet the physical activity guideline (44% against 45%). Forest and natural land is the largest land use in Appelscha, covering 44% of the area, against 21% in Ooststellingwerf. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 49% of the area, 27 percentage points above the 22% in Ooststellingwerf.
An estimated 72% 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
49% 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
Appelscha has 4,915 inhabitants (2026), or 125 per km² (8% higher than in Ooststellingwerf). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 97%, against a rise of 1% 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 97% between 2014 and 2026, to 4,915.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 125 residents per km², this wijk is 8% more densely populated than the municipality of Ooststellingwerf.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 7.0 children were born per 1,000 residents; 16.0 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
29% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
43% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
90% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
48% 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 has an average of 1.3 cars per household, about the same as in Ooststellingwerf (1.3). 29% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points more than in Ooststellingwerf (27%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 135 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
29% 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 33% to 29% 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, 2,945 passenger cars and 315 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
73% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (16%).
Based on 3,000 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
125 residents per km²: 77% 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
| 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-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 |