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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Weststellingwerf. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Weststellingwerf, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Wolvega-De Meulepolle is €243,000, 23% lower than in Weststellingwerf (€315,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 35%, against a rise of 33% in Weststellingwerf. 51% of the homes are owner-occupied, 14 percentage points less than in Weststellingwerf (65%).
The average WOZ value rose 35% between 2021 and 2025, to €243,000.
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: ~€279 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Weststellingwerf's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 75th 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
Wolvega-De Meulepolle has the 8th-lowest WOZ value of the 20 buurten in Wolvega.
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: €243,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolvega-De Meulepolle | 243,000 | 538 | – |
| Wolvega-Om de Noort | 393,000 | 21 | – |
| Wolvega-Wolvega Noord | 472,000 | 93 | – |
| Wolvega-Vogelbuurt | 228,000 | 468 | – |
| Wolvega-Stuyvesantbuurt | 279,000 | 539 | – |
| Wolvega-Stationsbuurt | 290,000 | 165 | – |
| Wolvega-De Scheene | 301,000 | 259 | – |
| Wolvega-Tuindorp | 311,000 | 267 | – |
| Wolvega-Schildersbuurt | 231,000 | 385 | – |
| Wolvega-De Heidepolle | 264,000 | 782 | – |
| Wolvega-Oranjebuurt | 215,000 | 513 | – |
| Wolvega-De Muziekbuurt | 241,000 | 335 | – |
| Wolvega-Centrum | 240,000 | 337 | – |
| Wolvega-Lindenoord | 322,000 | 387 | – |
| Wolvega-Staatsliedenbuurt | 183,000 | 411 | – |
| Wolvega-Bloemenbuurt | 350,000 | 168 | – |
| Wolvega-De Stedes | 195,000 | 85 | – |
| Wolvega-Vlinderwijk | 357,000 | 225 | – |
| Wolvega-Lindewijk | 499,000 | 331 | – |
| Wolvega-Buitengebied | 257,000 | 41 | – |
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 group: owner-occupied, 51% of homes.
Owner-occupied
Rented from a housing corporation
Rented from another landlord
CBS publishes this as a rounded share of the dwelling stock, so the parts do not always add up to 100.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
The largest group: single-family houses, 100% of homes.
Single-family houses
Apartments and other multi-family homes
CBS publishes this as a rounded share of the dwelling stock, so the parts do not always add up to 100.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
83% of dwellings were built between 1965 and 1974, against 16% in the municipality of Weststellingwerf.
Based on 545 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, 17 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Wolvega-De Meulepolle, 23% lower than in Weststellingwerf (22). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 2%, against a fall of 11% in Weststellingwerf. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Wolvega-De Meulepolle registered 17 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 22 in the municipality of Weststellingwerf.
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, Wolvega-De Meulepolle registered 17 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 22 in the municipality of Weststellingwerf.
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 Wolvega-De Meulepolle is 'Fraud and scams': 6.8 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 3.7 in the municipality of Weststellingwerf.
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: 2.5 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 2.1 in the municipality of Weststellingwerf.
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 Wolvega-De Meulepolle registered 2 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 70% of adults in Wolvega-De Meulepolle rate their own health as good, 4 percentage points less than in Weststellingwerf. More adults are overweight (60% against 55%), more feel lonely (49% against 44%), more smoke (20% against 16%) and more report anxiety or depression (44% against 40%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Wolvega-De Meulepolle, covering 68% of the area, against 3% in Weststellingwerf. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 29% of the area, 17 percentage points above the 12% in Weststellingwerf.
An estimated 70% of adults rate their own health as good, against 74% in the municipality of Weststellingwerf (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
29% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 12% in the municipality of Weststellingwerf.
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 primary school lies here at an average road distance of 700 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,000 m | – |
| GP practice | 1,100 m | – |
| Primary school | 700 m | – |
| Daycare | 700 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 1.1 |
| GP practices | – | 0.6 |
| Daycares | – | 2.8 |
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
Wolvega-De Meulepolle has 1,195 inhabitants (2026), or 3,185 per km² (26.3 times as high as in Weststellingwerf). Between 2021 and 2026 the population fell 2%, against a rise of 2% in Weststellingwerf. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Weststellingwerf was 81%, 3 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 shrank 2% between 2021 and 2026, to 1,195.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 3,185 residents per km², this buurt is 26 times as densely populated as the municipality of Weststellingwerf.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 4.2 children were born per 1,000 residents; 4.2 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
24% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
46% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
83% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
These figures are for the whole municipality of Weststellingwerf; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 81% of eligible voters in Weststellingwerf 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
Wolvega-De Meulepolle has an average of 1.2 cars per household, 8% lower than in Weststellingwerf (1.3). 19% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 8 percentage points less than in Weststellingwerf (27%).
Nijverheid en energie is the largest sector, with 20 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
19% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 27% in the municipality of Weststellingwerf (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 22% to 19% 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, 630 passenger cars and 60 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
90% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (1%).
Based on 605 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
3,185 residents per km²: 5.9 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
| Wolvega-Lindewijk | 1,120 | €499,000 | 13 |
| Wolvega-Wolvega Noord | 200 | €472,000 | 73 |
| Wolvega-Om de Noort | 55 | €393,000 | – |
| Wolvega-Vlinderwijk | 655 | €357,000 | 13 |
| Wolvega-Bloemenbuurt | 380 | €350,000 | 26 |
| Wolvega-Lindenoord | 595 | €322,000 | 46 |
| Wolvega-Tuindorp | 535 | €311,000 | 22 |
| Wolvega-De Scheene | 570 | €301,000 | 23 |
| Wolvega-Stationsbuurt | 345 | €290,000 | 101 |
| Wolvega-Stuyvesantbuurt | 1,110 | €279,000 | 22 |
| Wolvega-De Heidepolle | 1,750 | €264,000 | 13 |
| Wolvega-Buitengebied | 95 | €257,000 | – |
| Wolvega-De Muziekbuurt | 710 | €241,000 | 13 |
| Wolvega-Centrum | 525 | €240,000 | 172 |
| Wolvega-Schildersbuurt | 840 | €231,000 | 38 |
| Wolvega-Vogelbuurt | 970 | €228,000 | 9 |
| Wolvega-Oranjebuurt | 1,010 | €215,000 | 20 |
| Wolvega-De Stedes | 245 | €195,000 | 16 |
| Wolvega-Staatsliedenbuurt | 665 | €183,000 | 11 |
| Wolvega-Schipsloot | 20 | – | – |