NL Kinderopvang Vestigingslocatiescan

Find underserved Dutch municipalities for a new childcare location. This Actor combines the official childcare register (LRK), the DUO primary-school register, CBS population data (children aged 0-4) and CBS new-build housing permits into one coverage-ratio scan per municipality — no configuration required.

When should an AI agent use this?

• "Which Dutch municipalities have the fewest childcare places relative to young children?"
• "I'm a childcare entrepreneur — where should I open a new kinderdagverblijf in the Randstad?"
• "Compare childcare coverage in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam."
• "Is there new housing construction in [municipality] that could mean more demand for childcare?"
• "How many primary schools and childcare locations does [municipality] have?"
• "List all registered childcare locations (KDV/BSO) in [municipality]."

What this Actor does

• Downloads and parses the official LRK (Landelijk Register Kinderopvang) bulk dataset: every registered kinderdagverblijf (KDV), buitenschoolse opvang (BSO), gastouderbureau (GOB) and individual host-parent location (VGO) in the Netherlands, with capacity (aantal_kindplaatsen).
• Downloads and parses the DUO Open Onderwijsdata primary-school register.
• Fetches the current CBS population count for children aged 0-4 per municipality (CBS StatLine 03759NED).
• Fetches the latest quarter's new-build housing permits per municipality (CBS StatLine 83671NED) as a simple momentum signal.
• Combines all four into one record per municipality: existing supply, demand proxy, a coverage ratio (kindplaatsenPer100Kinderen0tot4), a market-fragmentation signal (aantalUniekeHouders) and a nationwide opportunity rank out of all ~342 municipalities — not just the ones in your run, since the underlying data is fetched nationwide either way.
• Optionally returns individual childcare-location records for the selected municipalities.
• Degrades gracefully if a CBS source is temporarily unavailable: you still get the LRK/DUO-based supply numbers, with the affected fields set to null instead of the whole run failing.

Input

Field	Type	Description
gemeenten	array of strings	Municipality names (e.g. "Amsterdam") or GM-codes (e.g. "GM0363", "GM363" or plain "363" all work). Leave empty for all ~342 municipalities.
opnemenLocaties	boolean	Also output one record per existing childcare location in the selected municipalities. Default false.
maxLocatieRecords	integer	Caps how many location records a run can produce when opnemenLocaties is on. Default 1000, max 5000.

Output

One gebied-vestigingsscan record per municipality:

{
  "type": "gebied-vestigingsscan",
  "gemeente": "Utrecht",
  "gemeenteCode": "GM0344",
  "kinderopvang": {
    "kdvAantal": 205,
    "kdvKindplaatsen": 8716,
    "bsoAantal": 185,
    "bsoKindplaatsen": 10596,
    "vgoAantal": 159,
    "vgoKindplaatsen": 925,
    "gobAantal": 4,
    "totaalKindplaatsen0tot4": 9598,
    "aantalUniekeHouders": 229
  },
  "aantalSchoolvestigingenBasisonderwijs": 97,
  "inwoners0tot4Jaar": 19490,
  "inwonersJaar": "2026JJ00",
  "nieuwbouwAantalWoningenLaatsteKwartaal": 356,
  "nieuwbouwPeriode": "2026KW01",
  "kindplaatsenPer100Kinderen0tot4": 49.2,
  "vestigingskansRangLandelijk": 203,
  "totaalGemeentenLandelijk": 342,
  "bronnen": ["Landelijk Register Kinderopvang (LRK)", "..."]
}

Optional kinderopvang-locatie record (only when opnemenLocaties: true):

{
  "type": "kinderopvang-locatie",
  "lrkId": "100248640",
  "typeOko": "KDV",
  "naam": "2 Voices-Parkside",
  "aantalKindplaatsen": 52,
  "adres": "Zocherstraat 68",
  "postcode": "1054MA",
  "woonplaats": "Amsterdam",
  "gemeente": "Amsterdam",
  "gemeenteCode": "GM0363",
  "naamHouder": "2 Voices B.V.",
  "kvkNummerHouder": "55449417"
}

Use cases

• Site selection for a new childcare business: find municipalities with a low childcare-places-per-child ratio and recent new-build activity (future demand signal).
• Franchise/investor due diligence: compare coverage across a shortlist of candidate municipalities.
• Market research: existing supply and school density per municipality, updated with each run.

Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model.

• Actor Start: $0.00005 (Apify default)
• gebied-vestigingsscan: $0.025 per municipality
• kinderopvang-locatie-record: $0.004 per childcare location (only when opnemenLocaties is on)

Legal

Data sources: LRK (Belastingdienst/DUO, CC-0), DUO Open Onderwijsdata (open), CBS StatLine (open, CC-BY-achtig gebruiksrecht). No personal data of children or parents is processed — LRK's naam_houder/ kvk_nummer_houder fields are business-level register data (comparable to a KVK registration), not personal data.

vestigingskansRangLandelijk is computed across all ~342 municipalities (1 = lowest childcare-places- per-child ratio nationwide), regardless of which municipalities you actually requested — it is not an absolute externally-published benchmark (no official national coverage-ratio benchmark could be verified during development), but it is a genuine nationwide comparison, not just a rank within your own selection.

FAQ

Q: Does this include a demand forecast for future years? A: No. CBS discontinued its regional age-specific population forecast in 2023/2024 (confirmed live during development). This Actor uses the current population aged 0-4 as the best available demand proxy instead, plus recent new-build activity as a forward-looking signal — not a forecast.

Q: What's the difference between KDV, BSO, GOB and VGO? A: KDV = kinderdagverblijf (daycare, ages 0-4), BSO = buitenschoolse opvang (after-school care, school-age), VGO = an individual registered host-parent location (also serves 0-4), GOB = gastouderbureau (an intermediary agency, not a physical location — excluded from capacity totals).

Q: Can I request all municipalities at once? A: Yes — leave gemeenten empty. Keep opnemenLocaties off for a nationwide run unless you also set a sensible maxLocatieRecords, otherwise you'll only get the first locations found before the cap.

Q: What does aantalUniekeHouders tell me? A: The number of distinct childcare operators (by KVK number, or by name when no KVK number is registered) active in that municipality, across all location types. A number close to the total location count means a fragmented market of many small, independent operators (easier to enter without competing against an established chain); a number much lower than the location count means a few large chains dominate (each running several locations under one KVK number).

Q: What happens if a CBS source is temporarily down? A: The run still completes using LRK/DUO. The affected fields (inwoners0tot4Jaar, nieuwbouw*, vestigingskansRangLandelijk) come back as null for that run instead of failing the whole Actor.

Related Actors

• NL New-Build Housing Permits Monitor — the same CBS 83671NED source with full quarter-range and QoQ/YoY trend options, for deeper new-build analysis than the single-quarter signal used here.

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Zoekwoorden: kinderopvang, kinderdagverblijf, LRK, vestigingslocatie, buitenschoolse opvang, gastouderbureau, kinderopvangondernemer.

Keywords

netherlands, childcare, kinderopvang, lrk, kinderdagverblijf, site-selection, education, cbs, open-data, government-data, mcp-tool

Changelog

0.2.0

• vestigingskansRang/totaalGemeentenInRun replaced by vestigingskansRangLandelijk/ totaalGemeentenLandelijk — the opportunity rank is now computed nationwide (all ~342 municipalities) instead of only within the municipalities you requested, at no extra cost (the underlying data is already fetched nationwide).
• New aantalUniekeHouders field per municipality: a market-fragmentation signal (unique operators vs. total locations).
• Fixed: GM-codes without leading zeros (e.g. "GM363" or "363") now resolve correctly.
• Fixed: duplicate municipalities in the gemeenten input (e.g. a name and its GM-code both listed) no longer produce duplicate — and duplicately charged — records.
• The Actor now degrades gracefully instead of failing entirely if a CBS source is temporarily unavailable.

0.1.0

• Initial release.