The population is growing about as fast as in Vaals. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Vaals.
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The average WOZ value in Raren is €444,000, 87% higher than in Vaals (€238,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 36%, against a rise of 37% in Vaals. 83% of the homes are owner-occupied, 39 percentage points more than in Vaals (44%).
The average WOZ value rose 36% between 2021 and 2025, to €444,000.
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: ~€456 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Vaals's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 313th 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
Raren has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 8 buurten in Vijlen-Lemiers.
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: €444,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raren | 444,000 | 89 | – |
| Vijlen | 333,000 | 609 | – |
| Mamelis | 384,000 | 27 | – |
| Harles | 430,000 | 31 | – |
| Lemiers | 271,000 | 365 | – |
| Holset | 427,000 | 76 | – |
| Wolfhaag | 496,000 | 68 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Cottessen-Camerig | 313,000 | 67 | – |
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 83% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
96% 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
37% of dwellings were built between 1945 and 1964, against 18% in the municipality of Vaals.
Based on 89 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
Raren has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 39 crimes were registered, against 18 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
39 crimes were registered in Raren in 2025 (18 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 Raren is 'Theft and burglary': 32 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 Raren registered 1 traffic accidents, of which 1 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 75% of adults in Raren rate their own health as good, 10 percentage points more than in Vaals. Fewer adults are overweight (38% against 54%), fewer feel lonely (42% against 54%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (38% against 49%), but more meet the physical activity guideline (50% against 39%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Raren, covering 54% of the area, against 55% in Vaals. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 42% of the area, 8 percentage points above the 34% in Vaals.
An estimated 75% of adults rate their own health as good, against 65% in the municipality of Vaals (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
42% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 34% in the municipality of Vaals.
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 large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 2900 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 2,900 m | – |
| GP practice | 2,900 m | – |
| Primary school | 3,000 m | – |
| Daycare | 3,100 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0 |
| GP practices | – | 0 |
| Daycares | – | 0 |
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
Raren has 160 inhabitants (2026), or 46 per km² (89% lower than in Vaals). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Vaals was 73%, 5 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 25% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population held steady between 2021 and 2026, at 160.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 46 residents per km², this buurt is 89% less densely populated than the municipality of Vaals.
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
38% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
53% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
59% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Vaals; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 73% of eligible voters in Vaals voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 25% 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
Raren has an average of 1.5 cars per household, 67% higher than in Vaals (0.9). 24% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 8 percentage points more than in Vaals (16%).
Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij is the largest sector, with 5 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
24% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 16% in the municipality of Vaals (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 24% 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, 105 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
25% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (73%).
Based on 359 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
46 residents per km²: 91% 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