De Aker-West, Amsterdam

Living in De Aker-West

De Aker-West is densely built and genuinely urban, and the stock is a genuine mix of apartments and family houses (58% houses).

At 8,793 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

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 De Aker-West

At €532,000 average WOZ value, De Aker-West ranks 184 out of 424 Amsterdam neighborhoods on price — 5% above the city median. That premium is the location speaking. For scale: Amsterdam's cheapest buurt averages €58,000 and its most expensive €2,250,000, so De Aker-West sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2023 and 2025 the average WOZ value here fell from €531,000 to €526,000, down 1% — 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 65% 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, De Aker-West is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (31% of its 4,570 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 25%. 42% 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: 30% of households sit in the country's top income bracket — which helps explain both the café density and the bidding behavior; average income per resident is €34,000 a year.

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 17 min walk · GP 14 min · hospital 4.5 km · library 2.9 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 13 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.7 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 7-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 5.5 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.3 km away; car ownership is moderate (0.9 per household).

Energy and running costs

Since 93% 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 De Aker-West

Before you bid in De Aker-West: much of Amsterdam sits on soft soil, and pre-1970 homes may stand on wooden piles — since the 2026 appraisal rules, a foundation risk class (A–E) appears in every valuation, so check it before you bid, not after the deal is already emotional. Also, 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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