Een-West is a statistical entity,[1] and has its own postal code.

[3] however it is considered part of Een and outside the build-up area.

[4] The area used to be close to uninhabited, but had a strategic value.

[4] In 1593, the stadtholder William Louis of Nassau built a sconce at Zwartendijksterschans [nl] on road between Friesland and Drenthe through the moorland.

Later the sconce deteriorated and the area became part of Drenthe.