St. Marten, Arnhem

Living in St. Marten

St. Marten is densely built and genuinely urban, and this is apartment territory: only about 1 in 6 homes is a house.

With 15,454 residents per km², you will know your streets are alive — and so will your ears; visit on a Friday evening before you commit.

Arnhem combines affordable urban neighborhoods with direct access to the Veluwe and the German border. The fashion and energy sectors anchor local employment, and the city's hilly parks give some buurten views most Dutch cities simply don't have.

The housing market in St. Marten

The average home value (WOZ) in St. Marten is €315,000, which puts it at #36 of 73 neighborhoods in Arnhem, almost exactly the city's midpoint. For scale: Arnhem's cheapest buurt averages €192,000 and its most expensive €826,000, so St. Marten sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €150,000 to €336,000, up 124% — faster than the city as a whole (+106%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Only about 1 in 3 homes here is owner-occupied (44% 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, St. Marten is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (39% of its 1,680 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 28%. More than half of all households (59%) are single-person — this is a neighborhood of independents, not minivans. The average household counts 1.7 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 57% of households are in the lower national bracket.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: groceries are a non-issue — 5 large supermarkets within a kilometer; eating out is the default here — around 46 cafés and restaurants inside a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 7 min walk · GP 7 min · hospital 2.0 km · library 1.3 km · 2 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: 3 primary schools within a kilometer means real choice — and short bike rides; daycare is well covered (3 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 6-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the train station is 12 minutes on foot — commuting without a car is the natural choice; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.2 km away; and at 0.5 cars per household, most residents simply don't own one — if you do, factor in permit costs and waiting lists before you buy.

Energy and running costs

Since 96% 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 St. Marten

Before you bid in St. Marten: listings are scarce here, which pushes bidding above asking more often — decide your maximum before the viewing, not during it.

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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