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Living in Franse buurt

The population is shrinking, while it grows in Zoetermeer. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Zoetermeer, and registered crime per resident is higher.

845 residents, 434 homes, Data: CBS, Politie, Kiesraad, Kadaster

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Compared with the municipality of Zoetermeer · newest year available

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© Kadaster / PDOK, CBS

01 · Prices & homes

Homes cost less than the Zoetermeer average.

The average WOZ value in Franse buurt is €320,000, 15% lower than in Zoetermeer (€375,000). 32% of the homes are owner-occupied, 24 percentage points less than in Zoetermeer (56%).

Key figures
  • Average WOZ value
    €320,000
    15% lower than Zoetermeer (€375,000)
  • More figures
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    32%
    24 percentage points lower than Zoetermeer (56%)
  • Social housing
    14%
    20 percentage points lower than Zoetermeer (34%)
  • Private rent
    54%
    44 percentage points higher than Zoetermeer (10%)
  • Single-family dwellings
    42%
    14 percentage points lower than Zoetermeer (56%)

Modelled ownership costs

Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€233 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)

€233/ month

Typical home here, before mortgage and energy

  • 86 m² · measured buurt average
  • WOZ €320,000 · average here
Levies you'll be billed€115NL median
  • Water board levy€41–
  • Property tax (OZB)€34€28
  • Waste levy€28€27
  • Sewage levy€12€22
Costs to set aside€118
  • Maintenance reserve€110–
  • Buildings insurance€8–

Model estimates, not bills.

For this home, Zoetermeer's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 118th of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.

cheapestdearest

Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.

Explanation
  • The home: one typical home of 86 m² (measured average in this buurt) with the average WOZ value here, €320,000.
  • Levies: Zoetermeer's own OZB, sewage and waste rates for 2026. The water board levy uses national average rates.
  • Set aside: maintenance at 0.85% and buildings insurance at 0.06% a year of the rebuild cost (€1,800 per m²).
  • NL median: what the same home would pay in the middle gemeente. Gemeenten where a regional body collects the waste levy are left out.
  • Not included: mortgage and energy. These are estimates, not actual bills.

Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026

Dwelling value ladder

Franse buurt has the 2nd-highest WOZ value of the 6 buurten in Stadscentrum.

Netherlands€398,000
Zoetermeer€375,000
Stadscentrum€292,000
Centrum-West€366,000
Franse buurt€320,000

Centrum-Midden€312,000
Griekse buurt€292,000
Engelse buurt€280,000
Centrum-Oost€260,000
Explanation

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)

WOZ value and age structure

Here: €320,000 average WOZ value.

ValueDwellingsAged 65+
Franse buurt320,000434–
Centrum-West366,000243–
Centrum-Midden312,000426–
Centrum-Oost260,0001,018–
Griekse buurt292,000455–
Engelse buurt280,000473–
Explanation

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)

Dwellings by ownership

The largest category is private rent, at 54% of dwellings.

  • Owner-occupied32%
  • Social housing14%
  • Private rent54%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by type

58% of the dwelling stock is multi-family homes.

  • Single-family homes42%
  • Multi-family homes58%
Explanation

CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Dwellings by build period

100% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 44% in the municipality of Zoetermeer.

  • 1975-1991100%
Explanation

Based on 434 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

02 · Safety

More registered crime per resident than the Zoetermeer average.

In 2025, 58 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Franse buurt, 35% higher than in Zoetermeer (43). Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.

Key figures
  • Crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025
    58
    35% higher than Zoetermeer (43)
  • Home burglary per 1,000 dwellings
    4.6
    2.4 times as high as Zoetermeer (1.9)

Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025

In 2025, Franse buurt registered 58 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 43 in the municipality of Zoetermeer.

Franse buurt58
The municipality of Zoetermeer43
Explanation

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

Registered crime per year

In 2025, Franse buurt registered 58 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 43 in the municipality of Zoetermeer.

Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, 2025
5835% above Zoetermeer
Explanation

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

Crime by category

The largest category in Franse buurt is 'Other and withheld': 38.6 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 2.5 in the municipality of Zoetermeer.

Franse buurtZoetermeer
  • Other and withheld38.6
  • Theft and burglary7.0
  • Fraud and scams4.7
  • Violence and threats3.5
  • Vandalism and public order2.3
  • Traffic2.3
  • Environmental0.0
Explanation

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

Home burglary 2023-2025: 4.6 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 1.9 in the municipality of Zoetermeer.

Franse buurt4.61
The municipality of Zoetermeer1.88
Explanation

Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.

Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025

Traffic accidents by outcome

In 2024, police in Franse buurt registered 1 traffic accidents, of which 1 with injury and none fatal.

2020
2021
2023
2024
FatalInjuryMaterial damage only
Explanation

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

03 · Living environment

Living environment

Distance to amenities

A large supermarket lies here at an average road distance of 500 m.

DistanceValue
Large supermarket500 m–
GP practice600 m–
Primary school600 m–
Daycare600 m–
Large supermarkets–2.1
GP practices–2
Daycares–2.1
Explanation

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

04 · Residents

The population is shrinking, while it grows in Zoetermeer.

Franse buurt has 845 inhabitants (2026), or 12,048 per km² (3.1 times as high as in Zoetermeer). Between 2025 and 2026 the population fell 1%, against a rise of 1% in Zoetermeer. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Zoetermeer was 74%, 4 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) had the highest share there: 20% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.

Key figures
  • Population growth since 2025
    -1%
    lower than Zoetermeer (+1%)
  • Turnout, municipality of Zoetermeer
    74%
    4 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (78%)
  • More figures
  • Aged 45 to 65
    25%
    about the same as Zoetermeer (25%)
  • Never married
    46%
    3 percentage points lower than Zoetermeer (49%)
  • Dutch origin
    66%
    4 percentage points higher than Zoetermeer (62%)
  • PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid), share of the vote
    20%
    3 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (17%)

Population per year

The population shrank 1% between 2025 and 2026, to 845.

Residents, 2026
845
  • -1% since 2025
  • Zoetermeer +1%

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Density

With 12,048 residents per km², this buurt is 3.1 times as densely populated as the municipality of Zoetermeer.

Residents per km²12,048
Dwellings per km²6,200

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Births and deaths per 1,000 residents

In 2025, 11.7 children were born per 1,000 residents; 17.5 died per 1,000.

2025
BirthsDeaths

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Residents by age group

25% of residents are between 45 and 65.

  • 0 to 15110
  • 15 to 2570
  • 25 to 45185
  • 45 to 65210
  • 65 to 80205
  • 80 and over65

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Marital status

46% of residents are never married.

  • Never married385
  • Married310
  • Divorced105
  • Widowed45

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Residents by country of origin

66% of residents have Dutch origin.

  • Netherlands555
  • Europe (excluding the Netherlands)45
  • Outside Europe245

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Parliamentary election

These figures are for the whole municipality of Zoetermeer; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 74% of eligible voters in Zoetermeer voted. The largest party was PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) with 20% of the valid votes.

Municipality of ZoetermeerThe Netherlands
D66
17.1%
16.9%
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)
19.7%
16.7%
VVD
14.8%
14.2%
GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
11.6%
12.8%
CDA
10%
11.8%
JA21
7%
5.9%
Forum voor Democratie
5%
4.5%
BBB
1.4%
2.6%
Other
13.5%
14.4%
Explanation

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

05 · More figures

More figures

Franse buurt has an average of 0.9 cars per household, 10% lower than in Zoetermeer (1.0). 23% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), about the same as in Zoetermeer (23%).

Key figures
  • Industry and energy, share of businesses
    27%
    13 percentage points higher than Zoetermeer (14%)
  • Transport, information and communication, share of businesses
    0%
    10 percentage points lower than Zoetermeer (10%)
  • Business services, share of businesses
    18%
    7 percentage points lower than Zoetermeer (25%)
  • Cars per household (2025)
    0.9
    10% lower than Zoetermeer (1.0)
  • Cars not on petrol (2025)
    23%
    about the same as Zoetermeer (23%)
  • Residential, share of addresses
    85%
    6 percentage points lower than Zoetermeer (91%)
  • Healthcare, share of addresses
    0%
    1 percentage point lower than Zoetermeer (1%)
  • Private rent
    54%
    40 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (14%)
  • Social housing
    14%
    14 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (28%)
  • Owner-occupied dwellings
    32%
    25 percentage points lower than the Netherlands (57%)

Business establishments by sector

Nijverheid en energie is the largest sector, with 15 establishments.

Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij0
Nijverheid en energie15
Handel en horeca10
Vervoer, informatie en communicatie0
Financiële diensten, onroerend goed0
Zakelijke dienstverlening10
Overheid, onderwijs en zorg15
Cultuur, recreatie, overige diensten5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Passenger cars by fuel type

23% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 23% in the municipality of Zoetermeer (2025).

  • Petrol77.3%
  • Other fuel (diesel, LPG, electric etc.)22.7%
Explanation

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

Vehicles by kind

In 2025, 375 passenger cars and 25 motorcycles were registered here.

Passenger cars375
Motorcycles25
Explanation

At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Addresses by building use

85% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is healthcare (0.2%).

  • Residential84.9%
  • Healthcare0.2%
  • Other14.9%
Explanation

Based on 511 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

Biggest difference from the Netherlands

12,048 residents per km²: 22 times as densely populated as the Dutch average.

This areaThe Netherlands
  • Residents per km²12,048
  • Private rent54%
  • Social housing14%
  • Owner-occupied dwellings32%
  • Multi-family dwellings58%
Explanation

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

06 · Nearby areas

Other neighbourhoods in Zoetermeer

Other neighbourhoods in Zoetermeer
Centrum-West470€366,000246
Centrum-Midden665€312,000482
Griekse buurt800€292,00031
Engelse buurt860€280,00052
Centrum-Oost1,340€260,000174

Sources: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026, Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01, CBS proximity statistics 2025, CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025, BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024, Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025, Municipal levies + CBS 2026. Figures describe the whole neighbourhood.

How we calculate
Living in Franse buurt (Zoetermeer): WOZ, prices & safety