Waterwijk Zuid, Almere

Living in Waterwijk Zuid

Waterwijk Zuid is urban but not overwhelming, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (100%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

At 4,815 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 Waterwijk Zuid

The average home value (WOZ) in Waterwijk Zuid is €393,000, which puts it at #46 of 164 neighborhoods in Almere — 13% above the city median. That premium is the location speaking. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Waterwijk 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 €339,000 to €435,000, up 28% — 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 95% 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, Waterwijk Zuid is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (27% of its 975 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 25%. Households split into 26% singles and 33% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.3 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (26% high-income, 22% low-income households).

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 1.0 km away; this is not a going-out neighborhood — the cafés are elsewhere.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 19 min walk · GP 14 min · hospital 2.0 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 4 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (3 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 station is a 6-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 1.7 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

99% 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 Waterwijk 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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