Eilandenbuurt Zuid, Almere

Living in Eilandenbuurt Zuid

Eilandenbuurt Zuid is urban but not overwhelming, and most of its 415 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

At 8,682 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed. Water makes up 18% of its surface — canals and waterfront are part of daily scenery here, and so are the price tags of homes that face them.

Almere is the Netherlands' youngest city — planned, spacious and car-friendly, with newer housing stock than almost anywhere else in the country. Many residents commute: Amsterdam is around 25 minutes by train, which is exactly the trade many buyers here have chosen.

The housing market in Eilandenbuurt Zuid

At €357,000 average WOZ value, Eilandenbuurt Zuid ranks 70 out of 164 Almere neighborhoods on price, almost exactly the city's midpoint. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Eilandenbuurt Zuid sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €313,000 to €399,000, up 27% — roughly in step with the rest of the city. WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 65% of homes owner-occupied, this is a settled buyers' neighborhood — homes change hands regularly, and you can usually find recent comparable sales on the same street to anchor your bid. Settled also means slower: owners here tend to stay, so the best houses may only list once a decade.

Who lives here

Demographically, Eilandenbuurt Zuid is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (30% of its 1,195 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 29%. 55% of households have children at home, so expect school runs, playgrounds in use, and neighbors who stay put. The average household counts 2.6 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (27% high-income, 27% low-income households).

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 1.1 km away; dining out means a short trip: only 2 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 14 min walk · GP 14 min · hospital 8.3 km · library 2.8 km. None of these will decide a purchase on their own, but a GP taking new patients nearby is the kind of thing you only miss after moving.

Families and schools

For families: the nearest primary school is 7 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (7 locations nearby) — though Dutch waiting lists mean you register the week you know you're expecting, not the week you need it; secondary school is a 6-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 5-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 1.3 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; car ownership is moderate (1.0 per household).

Energy and running costs

With 100% of homes built after 2000, insulation standards here are decent by default — but newer also means VvE service costs for apartments and less room to add value through renovation. Different math, not automatically better.

Before you bid in Eilandenbuurt Zuid

Before you bid in Eilandenbuurt Zuid: family neighborhoods like this one turn over slowly; when a good house appears it often goes to the first serious, well-prepared bidder.

None of these averages can tell you whether the specific house you found is fairly priced — that depends on its size, energy label, state of maintenance and the recent sales around it. That is exactly what a free HomeReview report checks, in about 10 seconds, for any Dutch address.

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