Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer, Eindhoven

Living in Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer

Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer is urban but not overwhelming, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (92%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

With just 3,680 residents per km², this is space by Dutch standards.

Eindhoven's housing market rides the Brainport tech economy — ASML and its suppliers pull in international engineers on good salaries, and prices in family neighborhoods have risen accordingly. English-speaking buyers are common here, which shows in how listings are marketed.

The housing market in Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer

At €372,000 average WOZ value, Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer ranks 43 out of 101 Eindhoven neighborhoods on price — 6% above the city median. You pay for the location here. For scale: Eindhoven's cheapest buurt averages €144,000 and its most expensive €1,204,000, so Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €252,000 to €415,000, up 65% — faster than the city as a whole (+57%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 77% 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, Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (28% of its 3,720 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 25%. Households split into 28% singles and 37% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.3 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (23% high-income, 25% low-income households); average income per resident is €33,000 a year.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 7 minutes' walk; this is not a going-out neighborhood — the cafés are elsewhere.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 6 min walk · GP 6 min · hospital 3.2 km · library 6.0 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 0.6 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 6-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 4.4 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; the nearest highway on-ramp is 3.8 km away; households here average 1.2 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Energy and running costs

100% 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 Achtse Barrier-Gunterslaer

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