World Toilet Day 2021

Friday 19 November 2021

Today is World Toilet Day. On this day the importance of good sanitation and access to clean and safe toilets for all is highlighted. It is also the day when we traditionally announce the toilet-friendly municipality of the Netherlands together with the MLDS and the Toilet Alliance. This is already the sixth year in a row that we are proud to present it to you.

The toilet-friendly municipality of the year 2021 is Municipality of Druten!

The 6 indicators for determining the most toilet-friendly municipality 2021 

That the municipality of Druten is the most toilet-friendly municipality in the Netherlands does not come out of the blue, of course. In order to determine which municipality may bear this honorable title, an annual ranking of all (352) municipalities in the Netherlands is made. This ranking of rankings does not come about by chance. In order to give a fair result, a points system is used. The amount of points awarded to a municipality depends on the following indicators:
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1. Density - The number of inhabitants divided by the number of restrooms (max. 300 points).

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2. Partner - Is the municipality cooperation partner of HogeNood (0 or 50 points)

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3. Facilities - The facilities per toilet location. The more people the toilet is suitable for the higher the number of points (max. 300 points)

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4. Proximity - The 500 meter standard, where one toilet is in close proximity to another toilet (max. 150 points)

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5. Public - The % of toilets of the total that are public versus open (max. 100 points)

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6. Policy - City Council policy. Have questions been asked, has a motion been made, has a motion been passed, is there an active policy? (max. 100 points)
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The most and least toilet-friendly municipalities of the Netherlands 2021

With a total of 751 points in the Municipality of Druten managed to keep first place in the ranking, closely followed by municipality of Losser who manages to maintain an honourable second place with no less than 746 points. A new entrant in the top three is municipality of Utrechtwho, with 744 points, rises from fifth to third place. Last year the third place was occupied by Municipality of Rotterdam who this year, with 731 points, has slightly dropped back to, still, a beautiful fifth place in the rankings.

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Unfortunately, there are also a number of municipalities that have not fared so well up to now. There are five municipalities which, with zero points, are at the bottom of the list. Unfortunately they have not yet taken any action to make their municipality toilet-friendly. The least successful municipalities are:

• Municipality of Blaricum
• Municipality of Laarbeek
• Municipality of Voerendaal
• Municipality of Waalre
• Municipality of Rozendaal (not to be confused with municipality of Roosendaal which is doing exceptionally well. With an increase of 373 points (from 273 to no less than 700) compared to last year, this municipality has gone from place 282 place to place 17)

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

For those of you who want to find out where your own municipality has ended up, we have put the complete ranking of all 352 municipalities online. The order is from high to low, so you will find the municipality with the highest number of points obtained at the top and the least toilet-friendly municipalities at the bottom. This year we also have an overview of the municipalities per province and like last year we present the map showing the proximity of all toilets registered in the HogeNood app.

World Toilet Day 2020

Where previously we only included the 50 largest municipalities (in terms of population) in the ranking, since the anniversary year 2020 we have included all municipalities in the Netherlands in our comparison. Would you like to know more about the results of the year 2020 and draw your own comparisons? Read the compilation of the 2020 ranking or the Top 3 toilet-friendly municipalities 2020.