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Buitengebied has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 5 crimes were registered, against 13 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
5 crimes were registered in Buitengebied in 2025 (13 in 2021).
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200) — registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in Buitengebied is 'Theft and burglary': 2 in 2025.
Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200). 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 Buitengebied registered 3 traffic accidents, of which 0 with injury and 1 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 75% of adults in Buitengebied rate their own health as good, 4 percentage points less than in Urk. More adults meet the physical activity guideline (53% against 49%) and more drink excessively (6% against 4%), but fewer smoke (15% against 18%) and fewer are overweight (52% against 54%). Forest and natural land is the largest land use in Buitengebied, covering 50% of the area, against 2% in Urk. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 61% of the area, 58 percentage points above the 3% in Urk.
An estimated 75% of adults rate their own health as good, against 79% in the municipality of Urk (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
61% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 3% in the municipality of Urk.
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 primary school lies here at an average road distance of 1700 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 2,100 m | – |
| GP practice | 1,900 m | – |
| Primary school | 1,700 m | – |
| Daycare | 2,100 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0.1 |
| GP practices | – | 0.1 |
| Daycares | – | 0.1 |
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
Buitengebied has 115 inhabitants (2026), or 30 per km² (98% lower than in Urk). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Urk was 89%, 11 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 17% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population shrank 15% between 2021 and 2026, to 115.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 30 residents per km², this buurt is 98% less densely populated than the municipality of Urk.
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
29% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
58% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
96% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Urk; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 89% of eligible voters in Urk voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 17% 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
Buitengebied has an average of 1.2 cars per household, about the same as in Urk (1.2). 23% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 6 percentage points less than in Urk (29%).
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 5 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
23% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 29% in the municipality of Urk (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 23% to 23% 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, 65 passenger cars and 5 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
29% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (24%).
Based on 58 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
30 residents per km²: 94% 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
| Havens en industrieterrein | 430 | €466,000 | 62 |
| Urkerland | 2,120 | €403,000 | 6 |
| De Staart | 5,800 | €391,000 | 9 |
| De Reede | 1,675 | €366,000 | 14 |
| Urkerhard | 4,145 | €358,000 | 13 |
| De Top | 4,460 | €338,000 | 12 |
| Urk-Kom | 1,895 | €324,000 | 34 |
| Urk-Noord | 1,165 | €292,000 | 20 |
| Industrieterrein II | 625 | €247,000 | 111 |
| Toppad | 0 | – | – |