Bakemabuurt, Amsterdam

Living in Bakemabuurt

Bakemabuurt is densely built and genuinely urban, and this is apartment territory: only about 1 in 33 homes is a house.

With 15,537 residents per km², you will know your streets are alive — and so will your ears; visit on a Friday evening before you commit.

Amsterdam is the tightest housing market in the Netherlands: international workers, students and families chase the same limited stock, overbidding is routine in popular price bands, and a large social-housing sector keeps much of the city permanently off the open market. Where a buurt sits relative to the ring road (A10) and a metro or tram line explains a surprising share of its price.

The housing market in Bakemabuurt

The average home value (WOZ) in Bakemabuurt is €372,000, which puts it at #347 of 424 neighborhoods in Amsterdam — 26% below the city median, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Amsterdam's cheapest buurt averages €58,000 and its most expensive €2,250,000, so Bakemabuurt sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2023 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €372,000 to €379,000, up 2% — 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 (68% 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, Bakemabuurt is a young-adult neighborhood — the 25-to-45 group outnumbers everyone else (35% of its 2,920 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 21%. 41% of households have children at home, so expect school runs, playgrounds in use, and neighbors who stay put. The average household counts 2.3 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 45% of households are in the lower national bracket; average income per resident is €24,000 a year.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: groceries are a non-issue — 7 large supermarkets within a kilometer; there are about 12 cafés and restaurants within walking distance — enough choice without the crowds.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 4 min walk · GP 4 min · hospital 2.9 km · library 0.3 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: 5 primary schools within a kilometer means real choice — and short bike rides; daycare is well covered (10 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 5-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 3.6 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; a highway on-ramp 1.0 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; car ownership is moderate (0.7 per household).

Before you bid in Bakemabuurt

Before you bid in Bakemabuurt: 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 Amsterdam is real, but so is the reason for it — walk the neighborhood at different times of day before committing. Beyond that, family neighborhoods like this one turn over slowly; when a good house appears it often goes to the first serious, well-prepared bidder.

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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