Filmwijk Bouwrai Zuid, Almere

Living in Filmwijk Bouwrai Zuid

Filmwijk Bouwrai Zuid is urban but not overwhelming, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (80%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

At 5,501 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

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 Filmwijk Bouwrai Zuid

At €392,000 average WOZ value, Filmwijk Bouwrai Zuid ranks 47 out of 164 Almere neighborhoods on price — 12% above the city median. You pay for the location here. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Filmwijk Bouwrai 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 €337,000 to €427,000, 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 86% 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, Filmwijk Bouwrai Zuid is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (30% of its 1,545 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 24%. Households split into 34% singles and 31% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.1 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (28% high-income, 22% low-income households).

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 1.1 km away; there are about 11 cafés and restaurants within walking distance — enough choice without the crowds.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 5 min walk · GP 5 min · hospital 1.2 km · library 0.9 km · 1 cinema within 5 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 5 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.6 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 4-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 6-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.6 km away; car ownership is moderate (0.9 per household).

Energy and running costs

Since 100% of the stock predates 2000, always check the energy label of a specific listing — the difference between label C and label F on an average home here is easily a few thousand euros a year in heating, and it changes what you can sensibly bid.

Before you bid in Filmwijk Bouwrai Zuid

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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