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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Soest. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Soest, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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The average WOZ value in De Birkt is €883,000, 85% higher than in Soest (€477,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 43%, against a rise of 34% in Soest. 79% of the homes are owner-occupied, 15 percentage points more than in Soest (64%).
The average WOZ value rose 43% between 2021 and 2025, to €883,000.
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: ~€552 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Soest's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 16th 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 Birkt has the 3rd-highest WOZ value of the 5 buurten in Soest-Zuid.
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: €883,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Birkt | 883,000 | 71 | – |
| Soest Zuid | 653,000 | 2,232 | – |
| Soestduinen | 1,005,000 | 69 | – |
| Duinen Gebied | 816,000 | 57 | – |
| Paltz | 950,000 | 100 | – |
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 79% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
86% 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
61% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 17% in the municipality of Soest.
Based on 72 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, 33 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in De Birkt, 14% higher than in Soest (29). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 2%, against a fall of 2% in Soest. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, De Birkt registered 33 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 29 in the municipality of Soest.
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 Birkt registered 33 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 29 in the municipality of Soest.
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 Birkt is 'Violence and threats': 9.5 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 3.1 in the municipality of Soest.
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 De Birkt 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
An estimated 82% of adults in De Birkt rate their own health as good, 7 percentage points more than in Soest. Fewer adults feel lonely (32% against 44%), fewer report anxiety or depression (38% against 45%) and fewer are overweight (44% against 49%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (57% against 50%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in De Birkt, covering 91% of the area, against 24% in Soest. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 1% of the area, 44 percentage points below the 45% in Soest.
An estimated 82% of adults rate their own health as good, against 75% in the municipality of Soest (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
0.7% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 45% in the municipality of Soest.
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 daycare lies here at an average road distance of 1300 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 2,000 m | – |
| GP practice | 1,800 m | – |
| Primary school | 1,800 m | – |
| Daycare | 1,300 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| Daycares | – | 0.3 |
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 Birkt has 200 inhabitants (2026), or 45 per km² (96% lower than in Soest). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 7%, against a rise of 2% in Soest. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Soest was 82%, 4 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 20% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 7% between 2021 and 2026, to 200.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 45 residents per km², this buurt is 96% less densely populated than the municipality of Soest.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 23.8 children were born per 1,000 residents; 47.6 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
28% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
42% 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 Soest; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 82% of eligible voters in Soest voted. The largest party was D66 with 20% 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 Birkt has an average of 1.9 cars per household, 58% higher than in Soest (1.2). 25% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 1 percentage point more than in Soest (24%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
25% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 24% in the municipality of Soest (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 20% to 25% 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, 140 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
76% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (25%).
Based on 95 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
45 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) 2026
| Soestduinen | 180 | €1,005,000 | – |
| Paltz | 160 | €950,000 | – |
| Duinen Gebied | 310 | €816,000 | 50 |
| Soest Zuid | 5,385 | €653,000 | 33 |
| Vlasakkers | 5 | – | – |