Driehuizen, Apeldoorn

Living in Driehuizen

Driehuizen is urban but not overwhelming, and most of its 2,236 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

At 4,643 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

Apeldoorn is a low-rise, green family market on the edge of the Veluwe national park — more space per euro than the west of the country, in exchange for a longer commute. It consistently attracts families trading Randstad apartments for gardens.

The housing market in Driehuizen

At €386,000 average WOZ value, Driehuizen ranks 52 out of 82 Apeldoorn neighborhoods on price — 14% below the city median, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Apeldoorn's cheapest buurt averages €246,000 and its most expensive €936,000, so Driehuizen sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €199,000 to €386,000, up 94% — slower than the city as a whole (+100%). 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, Driehuizen is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (30% of its 4,610 residents), followed by over-65s at 23%. Households split into 38% singles and 30% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.1 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 35% of households are in the lower national bracket; average income per resident is €34,000 a year.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 6 minutes' walk; dining out means a short trip: only 6 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 12 min walk · GP 11 min · hospital 1.0 km · library 1.8 km · 1 cinema 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 6 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 3-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 10-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.4 km away; car ownership is moderate (1.0 per household).

Energy and running costs

84% of homes were built before 2000. Two identical-looking houses on the same street can differ by hundreds of euros a month once heating is counted — the energy label tells you which one you're looking at, and lenders increasingly price it into your mortgage too.

Before you bid in Driehuizen

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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