Kruidenwijk Zuid, Almere

Living in Kruidenwijk Zuid

Kruidenwijk Zuid is urban but not overwhelming, and most of its 359 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

At 5,583 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 Kruidenwijk Zuid

The average home value (WOZ) in Kruidenwijk Zuid is €355,000, which puts it at #73 of 164 neighborhoods in Almere, almost exactly the city's midpoint. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Kruidenwijk 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 €329,000 to €393,000, up 19% — slower than the city as a whole (+28%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 66% 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, Kruidenwijk Zuid is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (27% of its 830 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 27%. Households split into 30% singles and 33% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.2 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (19% high-income, 26% low-income households).

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 5 minutes' walk; dining out means a short trip: only 2 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 8 min walk · GP 8 min · hospital 2.3 km · library 2.0 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 11 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (5 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 an 8-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 1.5 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; households here average 1.1 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Energy and running costs

79% of homes were built before 2000. Two identical-looking houses on the same street can differ by hundreds of euros a month once heating is counted — the energy label tells you which one you're looking at, and lenders increasingly price it into your mortgage too.

Before you bid in Kruidenwijk 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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