Stadstuin, Amersfoort

Living in Stadstuin

Stadstuin is moderately urban — city amenities without the crush, and this is apartment territory: only about 1 in 5 homes is a house.

At 4,575 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

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 Stadstuin

The average home value (WOZ) in Stadstuin is €363,000, which puts it at #98 of 125 neighborhoods in Amersfoort — 12% below the city median, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Amersfoort's cheapest buurt averages €102,000 and its most expensive €1,329,000, so Stadstuin sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €193,000 to €380,000, up 97% — slower than the city as a whole (+110%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 77% 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, Stadstuin is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (32% of its 1,475 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 28%. Households split into 40% singles and 25% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 1.9 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (15% high-income, 26% low-income households).

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 1.2 km away; this is not a going-out neighborhood — the cafés are elsewhere.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 16 min walk · GP 12 min · hospital 4.3 km · library 3.4 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 14 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.7 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 3-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 6.0 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; a highway on-ramp 0.8 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

With 100% of homes built after 2000, insulation standards here are decent by default — but newer also means VvE service costs for apartments and less room to add value through renovation. Different math, not automatically better.

Before you bid in Stadstuin

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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