The population is growing faster than in Smallingerland. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Smallingerland, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in De Wilgen is €528,000, 81% higher than in Smallingerland (€291,000). Between 2024 and 2025 the average WOZ value stayed about level, against a rise of 2% in Smallingerland. 91% of the homes are owner-occupied, 31 percentage points more than in Smallingerland (60%).
The average WOZ value held steady between 2024 and 2025, at €528,000.
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: ~€467 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Smallingerland's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 246th 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
De Wilgen has the 3rd-lowest WOZ value of the 8 buurten in Buitengebied West.
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: €528,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Wilgen | 528,000 | 104 | – |
| Buitengebied west | 626,000 | 88 | – |
| De Wilgen, Sanding | 787,000 | 173 | – |
| Boornbergum | 378,000 | 751 | – |
| Smalle Ee | 640,000 | 22 | – |
| Goengahuizen | 648,000 | 26 | – |
| De Veenhoop | 488,000 | 102 | – |
| Kortehemmen | 592,000 | 69 | – |
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 91% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
96% 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
43% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 9% in the municipality of Smallingerland.
Based on 105 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, 30 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in De Wilgen, 19% lower than in Smallingerland (37). Since 2024 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 4%, against a fall of 6% in Smallingerland. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, De Wilgen registered 30 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 37 in the municipality of Smallingerland.
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, De Wilgen registered 30 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 37 in the municipality of Smallingerland.
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 De Wilgen is 'Traffic': 14.8 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 7.4 in the municipality of Smallingerland.
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 2023, police in De Wilgen registered 1 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) 2023
An estimated 82% of adults in De Wilgen rate their own health as good, 10 percentage points more than in Smallingerland. Fewer adults feel lonely (35% against 46%), fewer are overweight (44% against 54%), fewer report anxiety or depression (32% against 42%) and fewer smoke (10% against 17%).
An estimated 82% of adults rate their own health as good, against 72% in the municipality of Smallingerland (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
A large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 2100 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 2,100 m | – |
| GP practice | 3,100 m | – |
| Primary school | 2,600 m | – |
| Daycare | 2,700 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
De Wilgen has 280 inhabitants (2026), or 74 per km² (85% lower than in Smallingerland). Between 2024 and 2026 the population rose 8%, against a rise of 1% in Smallingerland. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Smallingerland was 79%, 1 percentage point 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 grew 8% between 2024 and 2026, to 280.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 74 residents per km², this buurt is 85% less densely populated than the municipality of Smallingerland.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, almost no children were born; 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
52% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
95% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
100% 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 Smallingerland; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 79% of eligible voters in Smallingerland 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
De Wilgen has an average of 1.7 cars per household, 21% higher than in Smallingerland (1.4). 38% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 7 percentage points more than in Smallingerland (31%).
Overheid, onderwijs en zorg is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
37% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 31% in the municipality of Smallingerland (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 36% to 37% between 2024 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, 170 passenger cars and 10 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
90% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (9%).
Based on 117 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
4% multi-family dwellings, against 37% 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
| De Wilgen, Sanding | 375 | €787,000 | 0 |
| Goengahuizen | 45 | €648,000 | – |
| Smalle Ee | 50 | €640,000 | – |
| Buitengebied west | 255 | €626,000 | 90 |
| Kortehemmen | 355 | €592,000 | 46 |
| De Veenhoop | 260 | €488,000 | 39 |
| Boornbergum | 1,810 | €378,000 | 18 |