The population is shrinking, while it grows in Smallingerland. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Smallingerland, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in De Bouwen is €190,000, 35% lower than in Smallingerland (€291,000). Between 2024 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 1%, against a rise of 2% in Smallingerland. 28% of the homes are owner-occupied, 32 percentage points less than in Smallingerland (60%).
The average WOZ value rose 1% between 2024 and 2025, to €190,000.
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: ~€290 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 263rd 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 Bouwen has the lowest WOZ value of the 16 wijken in the municipality of Smallingerland.
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: €190,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Bouwen | 190,000 | 2,125 | – |
| Centrum | 262,000 | 914 | – |
| De Wiken | 206,000 | 2,883 | – |
| De Singels | 322,000 | 1,900 | – |
| De Drait | 304,000 | 2,958 | – |
| Drachtstervaart | 476,000 | 702 | – |
| De Venen | 248,000 | 1,163 | – |
| De Folgeren | 340,000 | 2,564 | – |
| De Swetten | 223,000 | 2,296 | – |
| Noord-Oost | 227,000 | 2,350 | – |
| De Haven | 453,000 | 23 | – |
| Drachten Oost | 463,000 | 53 | – |
| De Trisken | 281,000 | 2,083 | – |
| Buitengebied Noord | 380,000 | 1,735 | – |
| Buitengebied West | 488,000 | 1,335 | – |
| Buitengebied Oost | 353,000 | 1,480 | – |
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 social housing, at 53% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
54% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
27% of dwellings were built between 1965 and 1974, against 23% in the municipality of Smallingerland.
Based on 2,127 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, 46 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in De Bouwen, 24% higher than in Smallingerland (37). Since 2024 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 21%, against a fall of 6% in Smallingerland. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, De Bouwen registered 46 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 Bouwen registered 46 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 Bouwen is 'Theft and burglary': 16.9 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 12.8 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
Home burglary 2023-2025: 1.9 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 1.3 in the municipality of Smallingerland.
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 De Bouwen registered 11 traffic accidents, of which 3 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 62% of adults in De Bouwen rate their own health as good, 10 percentage points less than in Smallingerland. Fewer adults meet the physical activity guideline (42% against 49%), but more feel lonely (52% against 46%), more are overweight (58% against 54%) and more report anxiety or depression (46% against 42%).
An estimated 62% 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
De Bouwen has 3,345 inhabitants (2026), or 3,945 per km² (8.1 times as high as in Smallingerland). Between 2024 and 2026 the population stayed about level, 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 held steady between 2024 and 2026, at 3,345.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 3,945 residents per km², this wijk is 8.1 times as densely populated as the municipality of Smallingerland.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 10.4 children were born per 1,000 residents; 32.6 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
22% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
43% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
84% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
44% 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 Bouwen has an average of 0.8 cars per household, 43% lower than in Smallingerland (1.4). 19% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 12 percentage points less than in Smallingerland (31%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 70 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
19% 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 19% to 19% 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, 1,435 passenger cars and 120 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
86% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is healthcare (15%).
Based on 2,469 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
3,945 residents per km²: 7.3 times as densely populated as 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 Bouwen oost | 1,335 | €253,000 | 28 |
| De Bouwen noord | 630 | €225,000 | 75 |
| De Bouwen west | 700 | €176,000 | 45 |
| De Bouwen zuid | 685 | €123,000 | 53 |