Sport in Houten

How many residents of Houten play sport every week and get enough exercise: by age group, among schoolchildren, and how this has changed since 2016. You can see Houten alongside the rest of the Netherlands and alongside similar municipalities, plus which sports fields and courts there are.

Sport every week

Houten 65%
GGD Regio Utrecht 63%
Netherlands 58%

Gets enough exercise

Houten 50%
GGD Regio Utrecht 52%
Netherlands 49%

By age

Sport every week

18–64, Houten 70%
18–64, Netherlands 63%
65+, Houten 49%
65+, Netherlands 42%

Gets enough exercise

18–64, Houten 52%
18–64, Netherlands 52%
65+, Houten 45%
65+, Netherlands 41%

Pupils

Houten 79%
Netherlands 76%

Since 2016

Alongside other municipalities

Comparable municipalities

Pitches and courts

	Houten	Per 10.000 residents	Netherlands
Football pitches	60	11,8	7,3
Tennis courts	32	6,3	5,1
Padel courts	6	1,2	0,6
Hockey pitches	6	1,2	0,6
Basketball courts	20	3,9	1,2
Buitenfitness	11	2,2	0,6
Skate parks	3	0,6	0,4

Sources: CBS/RIVM/GGD's, Health Monitor for Adults and Older People 2024, adults; in 2016 from 19 years old. The line on a bar is the margin of error (95%); pupils: Youth Health Monitor 2023, grades 2 and 4, weekly sport at a club or gym; comparable = equally urban and roughly equal in size, CBS, Key Figures for Neighbourhoods and Districts; pitches and courts: © OpenStreetMap contributors, as they appear on the map.

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