The population is shrinking, while it grows in Overbetuwe.
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Merm has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 8 crimes were registered, against 2 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
8 crimes were registered in Merm in 2025 (2 in 2021).
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200) — registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in Merm is 'Traffic': 4 in 2025.
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200). 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
In 2024, police in Merm registered 2 traffic accidents, of which 0 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
Built-up land is the largest land use in Merm, covering 69% of the area, against 12% in Overbetuwe. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 3% of the area, 7 percentage points below the 10% in Overbetuwe.
3% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 10% in the municipality of Overbetuwe.
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
Merm has 5 inhabitants (2026), or 41 per km². In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Overbetuwe was 83%, 5 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 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 67% between 2021 and 2026, to 5.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 41 residents per km², this buurt is 91% less densely populated than the municipality of Overbetuwe.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2023
In 2025, almost no children were born; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
50% of residents are between 15 and 25.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
100% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Overbetuwe; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 83% of eligible voters in Overbetuwe voted. The largest party was D66 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
57% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 31 percentage points more than in Overbetuwe (26%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 30 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
57% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 26% in the municipality of Overbetuwe (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 60% to 57% 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, 35 passenger cars and 0 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
4% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (71%).
Based on 83 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
41 residents per km²: 92% 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) 2023
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