Heesterakker, Eindhoven

Living in Heesterakker

Heesterakker is urban but not overwhelming, and most of its 1,078 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

At 5,126 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

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 Heesterakker

At €393,000 average WOZ value, Heesterakker ranks 38 out of 101 Eindhoven neighborhoods on price — 12% above the city median. That premium is the location speaking. For scale: Eindhoven's cheapest buurt averages €144,000 and its most expensive €1,204,000, so Heesterakker sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €268,000 to €438,000, up 63% — faster than the city as a whole (+57%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 97% 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, Heesterakker is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (30% of its 2,650 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 22%. 40% of households have children at home, so expect school runs, playgrounds in use, and neighbors who stay put. The average household counts 2.4 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes are broadly middle-of-the-road (29% high-income, 15% low-income households); average income per resident is €35,000 a year.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 13 minutes' walk; dining out means a short trip: only 1 café or restaurant sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 17 min walk · GP 17 min · hospital 3.9 km · library 3.5 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 4 minutes on foot; 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 nearest train station is 5.4 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; a highway on-ramp 1.7 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; households here average 1.3 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 Heesterakker

Before you bid in Heesterakker: family neighborhoods like this one turn over slowly; when a good house appears it often goes to the first serious, well-prepared bidder.

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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