The population is shrinking, while it grows 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 Nijega is €389,000, 34% higher than in Smallingerland (€291,000). Between 2024 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 1%, against a rise of 2% in Smallingerland. 83% of the homes are owner-occupied, 23 percentage points more than in Smallingerland (60%).
The average WOZ value held steady between 2024 and 2025, at €389,000.
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: ~€431 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 249th 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
Nijega has the 3rd-highest WOZ value of the 5 buurten in Buitengebied Noord.
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: €389,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nijega | 389,000 | 179 | – |
| Opeinde, onder de Vaart | 352,000 | 467 | – |
| Opeinde, boven de Vaart | 417,000 | 247 | – |
| Oudega | 369,000 | 711 | – |
| De Tike | 459,000 | 131 | – |
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 83% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
100% 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
44% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 9% in the municipality of Smallingerland.
Based on 180 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, 28 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Nijega, 24% lower than in Smallingerland (37). Since 2024 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 14%, against a fall of 6% in Smallingerland. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Nijega registered 28 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, Nijega registered 28 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 Nijega is 'Traffic': 13.0 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 2024, police in Nijega registered 21 traffic accidents, of which 2 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 79% of adults in Nijega rate their own health as good, 7 percentage points more than in Smallingerland. Fewer adults feel lonely (36% against 46%), fewer report anxiety or depression (35% against 42%), fewer are overweight (50% against 54%) and fewer smoke (16% against 17%).
An estimated 79% 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 gp practice lies here at an average road distance of 2200 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 3,200 m | – |
| GP practice | 2,200 m | – |
| Primary school | 2,400 m | – |
| Daycare | 2,400 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
Nijega has 445 inhabitants (2026), or 53 per km² (89% lower than in Smallingerland). Between 2024 and 2026 the population fell 2%, 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 shrank 2% between 2024 and 2026, to 445.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 53 residents per km², this buurt is 89% less densely populated than the municipality of Smallingerland.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 10.9 children were born per 1,000 residents; almost no one died.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
32% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
48% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
97% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
56% 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
Nijega has an average of 1.5 cars per household, 7% higher than in Smallingerland (1.4). 30% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 1 percentage point less than in Smallingerland (31%).
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 20 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
30% 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 32% to 30% 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, 280 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
94% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (12%).
Based on 191 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
53 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
| De Tike | 335 | €459,000 | 12 |
| Opeinde, boven de Vaart | 660 | €417,000 | 14 |
| Oudega | 1,655 | €369,000 | 9 |
| Opeinde, onder de Vaart | 1,120 | €352,000 | 27 |