The population is growing faster than in Westerkwartier. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Westerkwartier.
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The average WOZ value in Saaksum is €257,000, 22% lower than in Westerkwartier (€330,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 34%, against a rise of 39% in Westerkwartier. 89% of the homes are owner-occupied, 16 percentage points more than in Westerkwartier (73%).
The average WOZ value rose 34% between 2021 and 2025, to €257,000.
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: ~€398 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Westerkwartier's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 289th 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
Saaksum has the 2nd-lowest WOZ value of the 6 buurten in 16.
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: €257,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saaksum | 257,000 | 47 | – |
| Oldehove | 245,000 | 558 | – |
| Niehove | 282,000 | 70 | – |
| Lauwerzijl | 293,000 | 57 | – |
| Verspr.h. Ruigezand en Nieuwe Ruigezand | 445,000 | 23 | – |
| Overige verspreide huizen | 438,000 | 122 | – |
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 89% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
98% 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
81% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 19% in the municipality of Westerkwartier.
Based on 47 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
Saaksum has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 0 crimes were registered, against 3 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
0 crimes were registered in Saaksum in 2025 (3 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
In 2024, police in Saaksum 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
Agricultural land is the largest land use in Saaksum, covering 82% of the area, against 86% in Westerkwartier.
0% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 3% in the municipality of Westerkwartier.
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 1800 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,800 m | – |
| GP practice | 2,200 m | – |
| Primary school | 2,000 m | – |
| Daycare | 2,000 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
Saaksum has 90 inhabitants (2026), or 277 per km² (55% higher than in Westerkwartier). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Westerkwartier was 84%, 6 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, CDA had the highest share there: 17% of the vote, against 12% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population grew 6% between 2021 and 2026, to 90.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 277 residents per km², this buurt is 55% more densely populated than the municipality of Westerkwartier.
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
32% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
59% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
100% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Westerkwartier; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 84% of eligible voters in Westerkwartier voted. The largest party was CDA 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
27% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points more than in Westerkwartier (25%).
27% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 25% in the municipality of Westerkwartier (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 21% to 27% 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, 75 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
85% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (5%).
Based on 55 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
2% 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
| Verspr.h. Ruigezand en Nieuwe Ruigezand | 45 | €445,000 | – |
| Overige verspreide huizen | 350 | €438,000 | 17 |
| Lauwerzijl | 135 | €293,000 | – |
| Niehove | 130 | €282,000 | – |
| Oldehove | 1,235 | €245,000 | 10 |