Toilet-friendly municipality of Overijssel is Losser

Oct. 25, 2022

Friday 19 November 2021 was World Toilet Day. On this day, attention is paid to the importance of good sanitation and access to clean and safe toilets for all.

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There is work to be done in the Netherlands, because recent research has shown that one in five people regularly stays at home because of a lack of toilets. We can therefore say that there is a social problem. In order to draw attention to this problem, we annually announce the well-known ranking of "the most toilet-friendly municipality in the Netherlands" on World Toilet Day. But it is not only on World Toilet Day that attention should be paid to (the solution of) this social problem. As far as we are concerned, it should always be on the agenda. That is why we zoom in on one of our 12 provinces every month, giving insight into how the municipalities within that province are doing.

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We do not go through the provinces alphabetically, but on the basis of the rankings.

December: Province of Groningen

January: Province of Flevoland

February: Province of Zeeland

March: Province of North Brabant

April: Province of Limburg

May: Province of Drenthe

June: Province of South Holland

July: Province of North Holland

August: Province of Friesland

September: province of Utrecht

And this month it is Overijssel province that we take a closer look at.

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The number of inhabitants per toilet  

The most toilet-friendly municipality of the province of Overijssel is the municipality of Losser. With a total of 746 points, they managed to secure first place.

In order to paint a vivid and clear picture of the need for more toilets for the municipalities within the province of Overijssel, we have broken down the number of inhabitants per available toilet per
municipality. We want to emphasize that visitors and tourists to the municipality are not included here at
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For example, even in the best scoring municipality in this province (municipality of Losser) a total of 715 residents have to share one public/open toilet with a total of 32 toilets. In the least scoring municipality (municipality of Tubbergen) there is only one toilet for residents to share so if you compare it to that then it is not so bad. Those who live in the municipality of Tubbergen share one toilet with 21,315. That's a huge difference!

The number of people who have to share a toilet is one of the 6 indicators on which the national ranking is based. Every month we communicate the number of inhabitants per toilet of all municipalities within the province that is in the spotlight at that moment via our newsletter. Do you also want to be the first to receive this data in your mailbox every month? Then subscribe to the newsletter at the end of this article!

The ranking of Overijssel province

We have listed the complete ranking of municipalities within the province of Overijssel for you below. You can read the list as follows:

Position within province and name of municipality / number of inhabitants per toilet / (position on the Dutch ranking list)

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1. Losser 715 (2)
2. Oldenzaal 1,132 (13)
3 . Zwolle 1,603 (32)
4. Hengelo 1,930 (86)
5 . Deventer 2,250 (114)
6 . Rijssen-Holten 2,388 (122)
7. Steenwijkerland 2,016 (133)
8 . Kampen 2,095 (145)
9 . Hellendoorn 2, 114 (149)
10 . Dinkelland 2, 419(151)

11. Olst-Wijhe 2,295 (166)
12. Almelo 3,180 (175)
13. Raalte 3, 791 (180)
14. Enschede 3, 803 (205)
15. Ommen 3,049 (226)
16. Haaksbergen 4,038 (229)
17. Dalfsen 3,613 (253)
18. Hardenberg 4, 720 (266)
19 . Zwartewaterland 5,706 (283)
20. Hof van Twente 5,006 (313)

21. Borne 3,945 (314)
22 . Staphorst 4,315 (326)
23. Twenterand 5,617 (328)
24. Wierden 12,269 (337)
25 . Tubbergen 21,315 (339)

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Room for improvement

Nationally, with 746 points , the municipality of Losser is in a nice 2nd position out of a total of 352 municipalities in the Netherlands. Losser has dropped again by 1 point compared to last year. 2020 Losser had a total of 747 points. With a few simple steps, it is possible for every municipality to finish even higher in the national ranking in the coming year. There are more than enough achievable opportunities for all municipalities to become more toilet-friendly and thus not only more inclusive, but also more welcoming.

For example:
1. Make the toilets of municipal locations available to passers-by.
2. Placing public (seasonal) toilets at busy locations.
3. Asking local businesses if their toilets can be made available to passers-by.
4. Making toilets clearly findable by becoming a partner of HogeNood and registering toilets and keeping track of dates in the HogeNood CMS, placing signs at
that lead to the toilet and placing stickers at toilet locations themselves for extra indication.
5. Maintaining a sustainable toilet policy so that not only now but also in the future, sufficient hygienic toilets are ensured within the
municipality.

Want to become a toilet-friendly municipality? Then get in touch.

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The complete ranking of toilet-friendly municipalities of the Netherlands 2021

For those of you who would like to find out where your own municipality has ended up, we have provided the complete ranking of all 352 for World Toilet Day 2021 as an interesting article. Here you can read how the list came about and how many points each municipality managed to achieve in 2021. There is also a map showing the proximity of all the toilets registered in the HogeNood app.

Monthly updates on each province via the newsletter

From now on, we will be publishing a monthly article focusing on one of our 12 provinces. Do you want to be the first to know about the most toilet-friendly municipality of each province? Then subscribe to the newsletter at the bottom of this article. That way you can be sure
that you will receive the newest list in your inbox as soon as it is put online!

Note: The dates used in this article are a snapshot of World Toilet Day 2021, it is possible that changes have occurred in the meantime.