Malkenschoten, Apeldoorn

Living in Malkenschoten

Malkenschoten is quiet and low-density, and the stock is a genuine mix of apartments and family houses (37% houses).

With just 128 residents per km², this is space by Dutch standards.

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 Malkenschoten

At €279,000 average WOZ value, Malkenschoten ranks 76 out of 82 Apeldoorn neighborhoods on price — 38% 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 Malkenschoten sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €139,000 to €289,000, up 108% — faster than the city as a whole (+100%). 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 (1% 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, Malkenschoten is a young-adult neighborhood — the 25-to-45 group outnumbers everyone else (28% of its 240 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 27%. More than half of all households (60%) are single-person — this is a neighborhood of independents, not minivans. The average household counts 1.8 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 63% of households are in the lower national bracket.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 1.3 km away; dining out means a short trip: only 2 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 17 min walk · GP 22 min · hospital 2.2 km · library 1.7 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 19 minutes on foot; daycare is 1.2 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 4.8 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; a highway on-ramp 1.5 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering.

Before you bid in Malkenschoten

Before you bid in Malkenschoten: 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 Apeldoorn 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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