Municipal Housing Indicators for Utrecht, Netherlands

Twelve indicators on housing within the city of Utrecht, published by the municipality's Research & Advice department. The dataset includes figures on dwelling stock, property values, construction years, and ownership types. It is sourced from municipal tax cooperation, land registry, and housing corporation platforms.

Use Cases

• Analyze housing affordability and market composition based on the percentage of dwellings by property and price.
• Model property value trends based on average WOZ (property tax) value per square metre by form of ownership.
• Assess the age and distribution of housing stock based on dwellings by year of construction.
• Study the role of social housing based on the stock of dwellings managed by housing corporations.

Strengths

• Includes 12 distinct housing indicators covering multiple facets of the market.
• Sourced from authoritative municipal and national registries like the BAG (Basic Registration Addresses and Buildings).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, size, and last update date are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is geographically limited to the municipality of Utrecht.

Provenance

Source

Municipality of Utrecht, Research & Advice department, via the Utrecht in Cijfers platform.

Collection Method

Aggregated from Tax cooperation municipalities & water board Utrecht, BAG, Land register, and Regioplatform Woningcorporaties Utrecht (RWU).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Utrecht, Netherlands, with potential breakdown by neighbourhoods.