Land use; all categories, municipalities
Regions | Periods | Semi built-up area Other semi built-up area (ha) | Agriculture Other agricultural usage (ha) | Inland water Other inland water (ha) |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Netherlands | 2017 | 4,129 | 2,214,680 | 110,008 |
Drenthe (PV) | 2017 | 0 | 185,767 | 3,846 |
Noord-Drenthe (CR) | 2017 | 0 | 71,536 | 1,706 |
Zuidoost-Drenthe (CR) | 2017 | 0 | 67,420 | 1,380 |
Zuidwest-Drenthe (CR) | 2017 | 0 | 46,810 | 760 |
Midden-Drenthe | 2017 | 0 | 25,052 | 428 |
Source: CBS. |
Table explanation
This table provides information about the land use of the area of the Netherlands and the changes in land use.
Data available from: 1996.
Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.
Changes as of 26 April 2023:
Addition of 2017 figures.
This table is based on the Bestand Bodemgebruik (BBG), which literally translates as the ‘land use file’. For intervening base years without a BBG, this table just presents total area statistics for the presented regions.
Previously published base years in this table are never revised for corrections established when a newer BBG-edition is produced. Such corrections consist of corrections of earlier misinterpretations and of improved interpretations based on new sources. The corrections are recorded in the so-called Mutatiebestand (the mutations file) which is a digital map, being a part of each BBG publication. See Bestand Bodemgebruik for further information on correction of the land use statistics and for available publications.
As of reporting year 2016, Statistics Netherlands no longer publishes data on metropolitan agglomerations and urban regions. Various social developments have rendered the philosophy and methodology underlying the delineation outdated. It furthermore appears that other agencies are using a different classification of metropolitan agglomerations and urban regions depending on the area of application. This means there is no longer a consensus on which standard applies.
The metropolitan agglomerations and urban regions will not be published anymore from 2015 onwards as a default regional figure.
When will new figures be published?
After the addition of the 2017 land use figures all updates to this table will be stopped.
The methodology of the land use statistics, as it has been in use up to the 2017-edition, is being redesigned. See for further information on this redesign and the availability of land use statistics based on the new methodology the web page Bestand Bodemgebruik.
Description topics
- Semi built-up area
- Area with a certain amount of paving, not in use as traffic area or built-up area.
- Other semi built-up area
- Area of other use with a certain amount of pavement.
including
- a dyke that is not overgrown with grass;
- pier above sea;
- fallow land that can not be recognized as building site;
- railway out of use.
For longitudinal piers and embankments that are connected to the land, the minimum size is 0,1 hectare.
- Agriculture
- Area for agriculture.
- Other agricultural usage
- Area for agriculture without glass, like pastures, fields and orchards.
Including
- grassland (hayland and pastures) including the grass growns dikes and river forelands;
- area for cattle breeding;
- orchards, including underplanting, maintenance paths and windbreaks;
- horticulture and arable farming;
- cultivation of small fruits;
- scattered houses with associated yards and gardens, as far as they are in the middle or adjacent to agricultural area;
- natural grassland.
- Inland water
- Inland water in use as waterway, recreational water, mining area, sewage or sludge farm, water reservoir, including IJsselmeer.
- Other inland water
- Inland water, more broad than six meter, that does not belong to another category of land use.
Including
- waterways (rivers, canals etc);
- lakes;
- ditches;
- harbours, if not yacht basins.