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The population is growing slower than in West Betuwe. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of West Betuwe, and registered crime per resident is lower.
3,265 residents,
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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS
The average WOZ value in Varik en Ophemert is €500,000, 7% higher than in West Betuwe (€466,000). Between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 68%, against a rise of 64% in West Betuwe. 78% of the homes are owner-occupied, 5 percentage points more than in West Betuwe (73%).
The average WOZ value rose 68% between 2019 and 2025, to €500,000.
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: ~€331 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Waste levy not included: a joint body (in Rivierenland, Avri) raises it on West Betuwe's behalf, not the gemeente itself. Not counted in the total.
Model estimates, not bills.
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
Varik en Ophemert has the 3rd-highest WOZ value of the 12 wijken in the municipality of West Betuwe.
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: €500,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varik en Ophemert | 500,000 | 1,375 | – |
| Geldermalsen | 435,000 | 4,718 | – |
| Deil | 534,000 | 1,608 | – |
| Beesd | 478,000 | 2,081 | – |
| Buurmalsen | 478,000 | 1,253 | – |
| Meteren | 504,000 | 2,194 | – |
| Haaften | 453,000 | 2,013 | – |
| Waardenburg en Opijnen | 475,000 | 1,718 | – |
| Asperen | 418,000 | 1,279 | – |
| Heukelum | 451,000 | 1,364 | – |
| Vuren | 428,000 | 945 | – |
| Herwijnen | 456,000 | 1,244 | – |
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 78% 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
24% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 18% in the municipality of West Betuwe.
Based on 1,445 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, 14 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Varik en Ophemert, 46% lower than in West Betuwe (26). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 35%, against a fall of 24% in West Betuwe. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Varik en Ophemert registered 14 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 26 in the municipality of West Betuwe.
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, Varik en Ophemert registered 14 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 26 in the municipality of West Betuwe.
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 Varik en Ophemert is 'Fraud and scams': 5.0 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 4.4 in the municipality of West Betuwe.
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: 0.7 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.1 in the municipality of West Betuwe.
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 Varik en Ophemert registered 5 traffic accidents, of which 2 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 76% of adults in Varik en Ophemert rate their own health as good, about the same as in West Betuwe. Fewer adults smoke (14% against 16%), fewer feel lonely (38% against 40%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (41% against 43%), but more drink excessively (6% against 5%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Varik en Ophemert, covering 64% of the area, against 72% in West Betuwe. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 18% of the area, 8 percentage points above the 10% in West Betuwe.
An estimated 76% of adults rate their own health as good, against 76% in the municipality of West Betuwe (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
18% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 10% in the municipality of West Betuwe.
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
Varik en Ophemert has 3,265 inhabitants (2026), or 145 per km² (42% lower than in West Betuwe). Between 2019 and 2026 the population rose 4%, against a rise of 5% in West Betuwe. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of West Betuwe was 86%, 8 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 21% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 4% between 2019 and 2026, to 3,265.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 145 residents per km², this wijk is 42% less densely populated than the municipality of West Betuwe.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 7.9 children were born per 1,000 residents; 7.9 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
31% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
46% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
89% 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 West Betuwe; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 86% of eligible voters in West Betuwe voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 21% 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
Varik en Ophemert has an average of 1.5 cars per household, 7% higher than in West Betuwe (1.4). 26% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), about the same as in West Betuwe (26%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 135 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
26% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 26% in the municipality of West Betuwe (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 26% between 2019 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, 2,000 passenger cars and 260 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
95% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (7%).
Based on 1,526 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
6% multi-family dwellings, against 37% nationally.
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) 2025
| Verspreide huizen Varik | 105 | €574,000 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Ophemert | 255 | €566,000 | 24 |
| Ophemert | 1,485 | €486,000 | 13 |
| Varik | 1,000 | €484,000 | 11 |
| Heesselt | 165 | €455,000 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Heesselt | 255 | – | 12 |