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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Oude IJsselstreek. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Verspreide huizen Megchelen is €555,000, 62% higher than in Oude IJsselstreek (€343,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 39%, against a rise of 44% in Oude IJsselstreek. 84% of the homes are owner-occupied, 17 percentage points more than in Oude IJsselstreek (67%).
The average WOZ value rose 39% between 2021 and 2025, to €555,000.
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: ~€493 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Oude IJsselstreek's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 190th 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
Verspreide huizen Megchelen has the highest WOZ value of the 10 buurten in Overig Gendringen.
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: €555,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verspreide huizen Megchelen | 555,000 | 131 | – |
| Gendringen | 308,000 | 1,797 | – |
| Megchelen | 364,000 | 263 | – |
| Netterden | 395,000 | 172 | – |
| Milt en Wieken | 415,000 | 29 | – |
| Breedenbroek | 368,000 | 186 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Gendringen | 487,000 | 100 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Netterden | 481,000 | 62 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Voorst | 520,000 | 114 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Breedenbroek | 530,000 | 212 | – |
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 84% 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
29% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 18% in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek.
Based on 146 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 Verspreide huizen Megchelen, 37% lower than in Oude IJsselstreek (19). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 18%, against a fall of 8% in Oude IJsselstreek. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Verspreide huizen Megchelen registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 19 in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek.
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, Verspreide huizen Megchelen registered 12 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 19 in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek.
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 Verspreide huizen Megchelen is 'Fraud and scams': 8.7 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 3.4 in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek.
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 Verspreide huizen Megchelen rate their own health as good, 5 percentage points more than in Oude IJsselstreek. Fewer adults report anxiety or depression (37% against 44%), fewer feel lonely (36% against 42%) and fewer smoke (12% against 16%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (52% against 47%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Verspreide huizen Megchelen, covering 93% of the area, against 81% in Oude IJsselstreek. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 4% of the area, 2 percentage points below the 6% in Oude IJsselstreek.
An estimated 78% of adults rate their own health as good, against 73% in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek (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
4% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 6% in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek.
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 primary school lies here at an average road distance of 1200 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 4,000 m | – |
| GP practice | 4,000 m | – |
| Primary school | 1,200 m | – |
| Daycare | 4,000 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
Verspreide huizen Megchelen has 350 inhabitants (2026), or 52 per km² (82% lower than in Oude IJsselstreek). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 1%, against a rise of 1% in Oude IJsselstreek. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek 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: 18% 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 350.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 52 residents per km², this buurt is 82% less densely populated than the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 14.5 children were born per 1,000 residents; 14.5 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
46% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
89% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
59% of residents have a havo, vwo or mbo2-4 level education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2023
These figures are for the whole municipality of Oude IJsselstreek; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 81% of eligible voters in Oude IJsselstreek voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 18% 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
Verspreide huizen Megchelen has an average of 1.7 cars per household, 31% higher than in Oude IJsselstreek (1.3). 21% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points more than in Oude IJsselstreek (19%).
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
21% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 19% in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek (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 19% to 21% 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, 215 passenger cars and 35 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 industrial (14%).
Based on 148 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
52 residents per km²: 90% 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
| Verspreide huizen Breedenbroek | 530 | €530,000 | 26 |
| Verspreide huizen Voorst | 320 | €520,000 | 13 |
| Verspreide huizen Gendringen | 225 | €487,000 | 4 |
| Verspreide huizen Netterden | 155 | €481,000 | – |
| Milt en Wieken | 75 | €415,000 | – |
| Netterden | 405 | €395,000 | 10 |
| Breedenbroek | 445 | €368,000 | 2 |
| Megchelen | 590 | €364,000 | 12 |
| Gendringen | 3,805 | €308,000 | 12 |