Bekenstein / De Luiaard, Amersfoort

Living in Bekenstein / De Luiaard

Bekenstein / De Luiaard is city living in its most compact form, and the stock is a genuine mix of apartments and family houses (58% houses).

With 10,507 residents per km², you will know your streets are alive — and so will your ears; visit on a Friday evening before you commit.

Amersfoort sits at the rail crossroads of the Netherlands, which makes it a favorite for couples commuting in different directions. A well-preserved medieval center is ringed by thoughtfully planned newer districts like Vathorst.

The housing market in Bekenstein / De Luiaard

At €466,000 average WOZ value, Bekenstein / De Luiaard ranks 47 out of 125 Amersfoort neighborhoods on price — 13% above the city median. That premium is the location speaking. For scale: Amersfoort's cheapest buurt averages €102,000 and its most expensive €1,329,000, so Bekenstein / De Luiaard sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €248,000 to €473,000, up 91% — slower than the city as a whole (+110%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Ownership is split: 64% owner-occupied against 36% rental, including 6% social housing. Enough homes trade hands to give you comparable sales, but check what's actually for sale versus rented in the specific block you're eyeing — the mix can flip from one street to the next.

Who lives here

Demographically, Bekenstein / De Luiaard is a young-adult neighborhood — the 25-to-45 group outnumbers everyone else (31% of its 1,675 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 29%. More than half of all households (55%) 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 — 45% of households are in the lower national bracket.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: groceries are a non-issue — 3 large supermarkets within a kilometer; eating out is the default here — around 39 cafés and restaurants inside a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 11 min walk · GP 6 min · hospital 3.3 km · library 1.0 km · 2 cinemas 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 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 2-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 2.1 km away; car ownership is moderate (0.7 per household).

Energy and running costs

Since 85% 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 Bekenstein / De Luiaard

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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