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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Steenwijkerland. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Blankenham is €386,000, 14% higher than in Steenwijkerland (€339,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 62%, against a rise of 73% in Steenwijkerland. 87% of the homes are owner-occupied, 21 percentage points more than in Steenwijkerland (66%).
The average WOZ value rose 62% between 2014 and 2025, to €386,000.
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: ~€314 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Steenwijkerland's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 48th 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
Blankenham has the 10th-lowest WOZ value of the 29 wijken in the municipality of Steenwijkerland.
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: €386,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blankenham | 386,000 | 140 | – |
| Steenwijk | 286,000 | 8,683 | – |
| Oldemarkt | 323,000 | 1,194 | – |
| Kalenberg | 442,000 | 167 | – |
| Kuinre | 304,000 | 406 | – |
| Scheerwolde | 387,000 | 265 | – |
| Vollenhove | 289,000 | 1,972 | – |
| Sint Jansklooster | 398,000 | 943 | – |
| Belt-Schutsloot | 447,000 | 258 | – |
| Wanneperveen | 387,000 | 706 | – |
| Blokzijl | 327,000 | 657 | – |
| Giethoorn | 483,000 | 1,353 | – |
| Zuidveen | 369,000 | 263 | – |
| Onna | 438,000 | 129 | – |
| Kallenkote | 428,000 | 137 | – |
| Eesveen | 434,000 | 249 | – |
| De Bult | 649,000 | 54 | – |
| Baars | 571,000 | 39 | – |
| Witte Paarden | 390,000 | 96 | – |
| De Pol | 487,000 | 64 | – |
| Willemsoord | 376,000 | 367 | – |
| Marijenkampen | 438,000 | 58 | – |
| Tuk | 401,000 | 873 | – |
| Steenwijkerwold | 318,000 | 878 | – |
| Basse | 506,000 | 97 | – |
| Paasloo | 509,000 | 160 | – |
| IJsselham | 487,000 | 28 | – |
| Ossenzijl | 360,000 | 269 | – |
| Wetering | 632,000 | 99 | – |
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 87% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
94% 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
34% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 19% in the municipality of Steenwijkerland.
Based on 145 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, 9 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Blankenham, 69% lower than in Steenwijkerland (29). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 41%, against a fall of 1% in Steenwijkerland. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Blankenham registered 9 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 29 in the municipality of Steenwijkerland.
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, Blankenham registered 9 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 29 in the municipality of Steenwijkerland.
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 Blankenham is 'Fraud and scams': 6.1 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 4.4 in the municipality of Steenwijkerland.
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 Blankenham 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) 2024
An estimated 79% of adults in Blankenham rate their own health as good, 4 percentage points more than in Steenwijkerland. Fewer adults report anxiety or depression (36% against 41%), fewer drink excessively (4% against 6%), fewer are overweight (53% against 55%) and fewer feel lonely (42% against 44%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Blankenham, covering 83% of the area, against 50% in Steenwijkerland. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 14% of the area, 19 percentage points below the 33% in Steenwijkerland.
An estimated 79% of adults rate their own health as good, against 75% in the municipality of Steenwijkerland (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
14% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 33% in the municipality of Steenwijkerland.
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
Blankenham has 335 inhabitants (2026), or 25 per km² (84% lower than in Steenwijkerland). Between 2014 and 2026 the population fell 12%, against a rise of 6% in Steenwijkerland. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Steenwijkerland was 83%, 5 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) 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 12% between 2014 and 2026, to 335.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 25 residents per km², this wijk is 84% less densely populated than the municipality of Steenwijkerland.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, almost no children were born; 15.2 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
34% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
48% 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
76% 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 Steenwijkerland; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 83% of eligible voters in Steenwijkerland voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) 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
Blankenham has an average of 1.5 cars per household, 15% higher than in Steenwijkerland (1.3). 31% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points more than in Steenwijkerland (29%).
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 35 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
31% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 29% in the municipality of Steenwijkerland (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 39% to 31% between 2014 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, 225 passenger cars and 30 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 industrial (14%).
Based on 168 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
25 residents per km²: 95% 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
| Dijkdorp Blankenham | 180 | €457,000 |
| Kerkbuurt | 130 | €266,000 |
| Buitengebied Blankenham | 25 | – |