The population is growing faster than in Veendam. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Veendam, and registered crime per resident is higher.
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Veendam-kern is €222,000, 7% lower than in Veendam (€239,000). Between 2014 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 68%, the same as in Veendam. 60% of the homes are owner-occupied, 5 percentage points less than in Veendam (65%).
The average WOZ value rose 68% between 2014 and 2025, to €222,000.
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: ~€292 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Veendam's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 309th 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
Veendam-kern has the lowest WOZ value of the 3 wijken in the municipality of Veendam.
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: €222,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veendam-kern | 222,000 | 9,803 | – |
| Veendam-buitengebied | 287,000 | 889 | – |
| Wildervank | 287,000 | 2,477 | – |
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 60% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
74% 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
27% of dwellings were built between 1965 and 1974, against 22% in the municipality of Veendam.
Based on 9,940 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, 36 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Veendam-kern, 6% higher than in Veendam (34). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 12%, against a fall of 8% in Veendam. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Veendam-kern registered 36 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 34 in the municipality of Veendam.
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, Veendam-kern registered 36 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 34 in the municipality of Veendam.
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 Veendam-kern is 'Theft and burglary': 12.5 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 10.9 in the municipality of Veendam.
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: 1.6 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 1.5 in the municipality of Veendam.
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 Veendam-kern registered 76 traffic accidents, of which 21 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 67% of adults in Veendam-kern rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points less than in Veendam. More adults report anxiety or depression (47% against 45%), more smoke (20% against 19%), more are overweight (64% against 63%) and more feel lonely (52% against 51%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Veendam-kern, covering 54% of the area, against 13% in Veendam. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 16% of the area, 11 percentage points above the 5% in Veendam.
An estimated 67% of adults rate their own health as good, against 69% in the municipality of Veendam (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
16% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 5% in the municipality of Veendam.
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
Veendam-kern has 20,310 inhabitants (2026), or 1,633 per km² (4.5 times as high as in Veendam). Between 2014 and 2026 the population rose 1%, against no real change in Veendam. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Veendam was 74%, 4 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 grew 1% between 2014 and 2026, to 20,310.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 1,633 residents per km², this wijk is 4.5 times as densely populated as the municipality of Veendam.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 8.7 children were born per 1,000 residents; 13.6 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
26% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
45% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
82% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
48% 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 Veendam; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 74% of eligible voters in Veendam 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
Veendam-kern has an average of 1.1 cars per household, 8% lower than in Veendam (1.2). 21% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 1 percentage point less than in Veendam (22%).
Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 415 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
21% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 22% in the municipality of Veendam (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 21% 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, 10,925 passenger cars and 940 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
85% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (3%).
Based on 11,757 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
1,633 residents per km²: 3.0 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
| Buitenwoel | 2,305 | €339,000 | 13 |
| Veendam-Middenweg en omgeving | 850 | €244,000 | 31 |
| Veendam en omgeving station | 1,860 | €223,000 | 39 |
| Veendam-Sorghvliet | 7,915 | €215,000 | 24 |
| Veendam-industriegebied | 265 | €210,000 | 172 |
| Veendam-Centrum | 2,745 | €203,000 | 63 |
| Veendam-Zuid | 1,105 | €198,000 | 58 |
| Veendam-Oude Ae | 3,265 | €196,000 | 44 |