Luytelaer, Eindhoven

Living in Luytelaer

Luytelaer is urban but not overwhelming, and most of its 428 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

With just 1,645 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 Luytelaer

The average home value (WOZ) in Luytelaer is €603,000, which puts it at #12 of 101 neighborhoods in Eindhoven — 71% 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 Luytelaer sits in the upper band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €454,000 to €640,000, up 41% — slower than the city as a whole (+57%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 98% 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, Luytelaer is one of the older neighborhoods in the city — seniors form the largest group (38% of its 985 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 26%. Households split into 21% singles and 32% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.3 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: 45% of households sit in the country's top income bracket — which helps explain both the café density and the bidding behavior.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 0.8 km away; dining out means a short trip: only 1 café or restaurant sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 8 min walk · GP 8 min · hospital 2.7 km · library 4.7 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 8 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (2 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 4-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 4.1 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.6 km away; 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 Luytelaer

Before you bid in Luytelaer: in a premium buurt the risk isn't buying a bad home, it's overpaying for a good one — anchor your bid on recent sales of comparable homes, not on the asking price. Also, with many older residents, more homes will come to market here over the coming years than the recent past suggests — patience can pay.

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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