The population is growing faster than in Utrecht. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Utrecht, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Binnenstad is €563,000, 15% higher than in Utrecht (€490,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 99%, against a rise of 120% in Utrecht. 31% of the homes are owner-occupied, 14 percentage points less than in Utrecht (45%). 88 homes are currently for sale, with asking prices from €295,000 to €4,700,000.
The average WOZ value rose 99% between 2014 and 2025, to €563,000.
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: ~€272 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Utrecht's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 146th 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
Binnenstad has the 4th-highest WOZ value of the 10 wijken in the municipality of Utrecht.
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: €563,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binnenstad | 563,000 | 10,928 | – |
| West | 473,000 | 13,432 | – |
| Noordwest | 430,000 | 21,481 | – |
| Overvecht | 327,000 | 16,961 | – |
| Noordoost | 570,000 | 18,155 | – |
| Oost | 551,000 | 14,973 | – |
| Zuid | 422,000 | 13,712 | – |
| Zuidwest | 395,000 | 19,689 | – |
| Leidsche Rijn | 568,000 | 20,364 | – |
| Vleuten-De Meern | 616,000 | 19,041 | – |
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)
For the 88 homes for sale here the median asking price is €7,993 per m²; the middle half ask €6,810 to €8,786 per m².
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Homes for sale (with asking price and floor area) | 88 |
| Median asking price per m² | €7,993 |
| Middle half | €6,810 – €8,786 |
Asking prices of homes currently listed on Funda, not the prices homes sell for. Only homes HuisWeter has collected; the middle half runs from the first to the third quartile.
Source: Funda
The largest category is private rent, at 52% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
81% 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
57% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 28% in the municipality of Utrecht.
Based on 11,432 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
Asking prices from €295,000 to €4,700,000; median €7,993 per m². Asking prices, not sale prices.
In 2025, 382 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Binnenstad, 5.2 times as high as in Utrecht (73). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 87%, against a rise of 21% in Utrecht. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Binnenstad registered 382 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 73 in the municipality of Utrecht.
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, Binnenstad registered 382 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 73 in the municipality of Utrecht.
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 Binnenstad is 'Theft and burglary': 271.7 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 44.3 in the municipality of Utrecht.
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: 3.9 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.0 in the municipality of Utrecht.
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 Binnenstad registered 92 traffic accidents, of which 34 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 Binnenstad rate their own health as good, 6 percentage points more than in Utrecht. Fewer adults are overweight (28% against 39%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (65% against 57%), more drink excessively (12% against 6%) and more smoke (24% against 19%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Binnenstad, covering 77% of the area, against 44% in Utrecht. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 4% of the area, 12 percentage points below the 16% in Utrecht.
An estimated 82% of adults rate their own health as good, against 76% in the municipality of Utrecht (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
4% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 16% in the municipality of Utrecht.
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
Binnenstad has 20,550 inhabitants (2026), or 7,970 per km² (98% higher than in Utrecht). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 18%, against a rise of 15% in Utrecht. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Utrecht was 81%, 3 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 27% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 18% between 2014 and 2026, to 20,550.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 7,970 residents per km², this wijk is 98% more densely populated than the municipality of Utrecht.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 5.6 children were born per 1,000 residents; 5.3 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
48% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
76% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
63% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
68% of residents have a higher professional (hbo) or university (wo) education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Utrecht; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 81% of eligible voters in Utrecht voted. The largest party was D66 with 27% 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
Binnenstad has an average of 0.5 cars per household, 17% lower than in Utrecht (0.6). 58% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 30 percentage points more than in Utrecht (28%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 1,815 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
58% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 28% in the municipality of Utrecht (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 29% to 58% 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, 7,520 passenger cars and 470 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
82% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (11%).
Based on 13,961 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
7,970 residents per km²: 15 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
| Nieuwegracht-Oost | 1,120 | €724,000 | 169 | 5 |
| Lange Nieuwstraat en omgeving | 2,605 | €615,000 | 150 | 13 |
| Lange Elisabethstraat, Mariaplaats e.o. | 1,770 | €609,000 | 540 | 11 |
| Springweg en omgeving Geertebuurt | 1,960 | €599,000 | 81 | 4 |
| Domplein, Neude, Janskerkhof | 2,470 | €589,000 | 369 | 5 |
| Hooch Boulandt | 2,020 | €567,000 | 90 | 12 |
| Breedstraat en Plompetorengracht e.o. | 2,625 | €561,000 | 132 | 12 |
| Nobelstraat en omgeving | 975 | €491,000 | 258 | 6 |
| Wijk C | 1,340 | €480,000 | 516 | 2 |
| Bleekstraat en omgeving | 510 | €464,000 | 97 | 0 |
| Hoog-Catharijne NS en Jaarbeurs | 3,160 | €435,000 | 1,252 | 18 |
