Filmwijk Noord, Almere

Living in Filmwijk Noord

Filmwijk Noord is urban but not overwhelming, and the stock is a genuine mix of apartments and family houses (35% houses).

At 5,754 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 Noord

The average home value (WOZ) in Filmwijk Noord is €244,000, which puts it at #156 of 164 neighborhoods in Almere — 30% below the city median, which makes it one of the more approachable entry points into the city. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Filmwijk Noord sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €208,000 to €259,000, up 25% — roughly in step with the rest of the city. WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Only about 1 in 4 homes here is owner-occupied (44% is social housing) — supply on Funda is structurally thin, which concentrates bidding on the few listings that appear. If you find a home here you like, being prepared (financing check done, valuation lined up) is worth more than in neighborhoods where something new lists every week.

Who lives here

Demographically, Filmwijk Noord is a young-adult neighborhood — the 25-to-45 group outnumbers everyone else (33% of its 1,370 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 25%. More than half of all households (56%) are single-person — this is a neighborhood of independents, not minivans. The average household counts 1.8 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 60% of households are in the lower national bracket.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 1.0 km away; there are about 13 cafés and restaurants within walking distance — enough choice without the crowds.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 11 min walk · GP 11 min · hospital 1.0 km · library 1.1 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 8 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (4 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 4-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the train station is 14 minutes on foot — commuting without a car is the natural choice; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.6 km away; and at 0.6 cars per household, most residents simply don't own one — if you do, factor in permit costs and waiting lists before you buy.

Before you bid in Filmwijk Noord

Before you bid in Filmwijk Noord: listings are scarce here, which pushes bidding above asking more often — decide your maximum before the viewing, not during it. Also, the price gap with the rest of Almere is real, but so is the reason for it — walk the neighborhood at different times of day before committing.

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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