The population is shrinking faster than in Westerwolde. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Westerwolde, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Blijham is €261,000, 11% lower than in Westerwolde (€292,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 41%, against a rise of 43% in Westerwolde. 63% of the homes are owner-occupied, 5 percentage points less than in Westerwolde (68%).
The average WOZ value rose 41% between 2021 and 2025, to €261,000.
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: ~€351 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Westerwolde's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 322nd 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
Blijham has the lowest WOZ value of the 9 buurten in Blijham.
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: €261,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blijham | 261,000 | 982 | – |
| Morige | 377,000 | 175 | – |
| Wedde | 266,000 | 288 | – |
| Wedderheide | 391,000 | 106 | – |
| Wedderveer | 393,000 | 58 | – |
| Verspreide huizen in de polder Blijham | 438,000 | 24 | – |
| Verspreide huizen ten westen van Blijham | 393,000 | 57 | – |
| Verspreide huizen Hoorn | 452,000 | 57 | – |
| Verspreide huizen in de Weddermarke | 417,000 | 44 | – |
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 63% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
86% 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
25% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 19% in the municipality of Westerwolde.
Based on 985 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, 15 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Blijham, 62% lower than in Westerwolde (40). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 18%, against a rise of 2% in Westerwolde. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Blijham registered 15 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 40 in the municipality of Westerwolde.
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, Blijham registered 15 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 40 in the municipality of Westerwolde.
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 Blijham is 'Traffic': 4.1 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 4.9 in the municipality of Westerwolde.
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: 2.7 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.0 in the municipality of Westerwolde.
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 Blijham registered 5 traffic accidents, of which 0 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 65% of adults in Blijham rate their own health as good, 3 percentage points less than in Westerwolde. Fewer adults drink excessively (5% against 7%), fewer meet the physical activity guideline (38% against 40%) and fewer smoke (16% against 17%), but more are overweight (64% against 62%). Agricultural land is the largest land use in Blijham, covering 42% of the area, against 84% in Westerwolde. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 17% of the area, 9 percentage points above the 8% in Westerwolde.
An estimated 65% of adults rate their own health as good, against 68% in the municipality of Westerwolde (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
17% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 8% in the municipality of Westerwolde.
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 600 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 600 m | – |
| GP practice | 600 m | – |
| Primary school | 600 m | – |
| Daycare | 600 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0.8 |
| GP practices | – | 0.8 |
| Daycares | – | 1.9 |
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
Blijham has 2,005 inhabitants (2026), or 853 per km² (9.3 times as high as in Westerwolde). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 1%, against a fall of 4% in Westerwolde. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Westerwolde was 78%, in line with the national figure. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) 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 held steady between 2021 and 2026, at 2,005.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 853 residents per km², this buurt is 9.3 times as densely populated as the municipality of Westerwolde.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 10.1 children were born per 1,000 residents; 38.0 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
27% of residents are between 65 and 80.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
48% of residents are married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
88% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
49% 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 Westerwolde; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 78% of eligible voters in Westerwolde voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) 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
Blijham has an average of 1.3 cars per household, 7% lower than in Westerwolde (1.4). 20% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 3 percentage points less than in Westerwolde (23%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 35 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
20% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 23% in the municipality of Westerwolde (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 17% to 20% 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, 1,200 passenger cars and 95 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
93% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (2%).
Based on 1,058 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
14% 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 Hoorn | 160 | €452,000 | – |
| Verspreide huizen in de polder Blijham | 70 | €438,000 | – |
| Verspreide huizen in de Weddermarke | 150 | €417,000 | – |
| Verspreide huizen ten westen van Blijham | 120 | €393,000 | – |
| Wedderveer | 115 | €393,000 | – |
| Wedderheide | 220 | €391,000 | 13 |
| Morige | 410 | €377,000 | 10 |
| Wedde | 585 | €266,000 | 10 |