De Eenhoorn, Amsterdam

Living in De Eenhoorn

De Eenhoorn is densely built and genuinely urban, and this is apartment territory: only about 1 in 100 homes is a house.

With 18,799 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 De Eenhoorn

At €359,000 average WOZ value, De Eenhoorn ranks 355 out of 424 Amsterdam neighborhoods on price — 29% below the city median, which makes it one of the more approachable entry points into the city. For scale: Amsterdam's cheapest buurt averages €58,000 and its most expensive €2,250,000, so De Eenhoorn sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2023 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €361,000 to €377,000, up 4% — 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 100 homes here is owner-occupied (49% 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, De Eenhoorn is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (53% of its 3,295 residents), followed by 15-to-25 year olds at 24%. More than half of all households (80%) are single-person — this is a neighborhood of independents, not minivans. The average household counts 1.3 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 71% 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 27 cafés and restaurants inside a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 10 min walk · GP 7 min · hospital 1.6 km · library 1.6 km · 7 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 11 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (5 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 train station is 10 minutes on foot — commuting without a car is the natural choice; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.5 km away; households here average 1.2 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Before you bid in De Eenhoorn

Before you bid in De Eenhoorn: 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.

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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