The population is growing, while it shrinks in Wijk bij Duurstede. Homes cost more than the average in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede, and registered crime per resident is about the same.
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The average WOZ value in Cothen is €476,000, 4% higher than in Wijk bij Duurstede (€456,000). Between 2021 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 44%, against a rise of 42% in Wijk bij Duurstede. 71% of the homes are owner-occupied, 1 percentage point more than in Wijk bij Duurstede (70%).
The average WOZ value rose 44% between 2021 and 2025, to €476,000.
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: ~€317 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Wijk bij Duurstede's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 200th 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
Cothen has the lowest WOZ value of the 2 buurten in Cothen.
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: €476,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cothen | 476,000 | 1,217 | – |
| Buitengebied Cothen | 649,000 | 158 | – |
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 71% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
90% 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
21% of dwellings were built between 1965 and 1974, against 17% in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede.
Based on 1,229 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, 18 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Cothen, about the same as in Wijk bij Duurstede (18). Since 2021 the registered rate per 1,000 residents rose 21%, against a fall of 18% in Wijk bij Duurstede. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Cothen registered 18 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 18 in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede.
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, Cothen registered 18 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 18 in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede.
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 Cothen is 'Fraud and scams': 6.3 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 3.9 in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede.
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 2.3 in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede.
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 Cothen registered 2 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 76% of adults in Cothen rate their own health as good, 1 percentage point more than in Wijk bij Duurstede. Fewer adults feel lonely (39% against 41%), fewer meet the physical activity guideline (43% against 45%) and fewer report anxiety or depression (42% against 43%), but more drink excessively (6% against 5%). Built-up land is the largest land use in Cothen, covering 76% of the area, against 8% in Wijk bij Duurstede. Green space such as parks, sports fields, forest and nature covers 11% of the area, 1 percentage point below the 12% in Wijk bij Duurstede.
An estimated 76% of adults rate their own health as good, against 75% in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede (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
11% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 12% in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede.
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 gp practice lies here at an average road distance of 400 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 500 m | – |
| GP practice | 400 m | – |
| Primary school | 400 m | – |
| Daycare | 400 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 1 |
| GP practices | – | 1 |
| Daycares | – | 2 |
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
Cothen has 2,860 inhabitants (2026), or 4,191 per km² (8.4 times as high as in Wijk bij Duurstede). Between 2021 and 2026 the population rose 1%, against a fall of 1% in Wijk bij Duurstede. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede was 85%, 7 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 18% 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 2,860.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 4,191 residents per km², this buurt is 8.4 times as densely populated as the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 7.0 children were born per 1,000 residents; 8.7 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
30% of residents are between 45 and 65.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
45% 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
42% 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 Wijk bij Duurstede; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 85% of eligible voters in Wijk bij Duurstede voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 18% 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
Cothen has an average of 1.3 cars per household, 8% higher than in Wijk bij Duurstede (1.2). 20% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 2 percentage points less than in Wijk bij Duurstede (22%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 95 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
20% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 22% in the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede (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 15% 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, 1,585 passenger cars and 155 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
91% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is lodging (3%).
Based on 1,352 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
4,191 residents per km²: 7.8 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
| Buitengebied Cothen | 435 | €649,000 | 51 |