Zwaanstraat, Eindhoven

Living in Zwaanstraat

Zwaanstraat is urban but not overwhelming, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (86%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

With just 2,604 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 Zwaanstraat

At €588,000 average WOZ value, Zwaanstraat ranks 14 out of 101 Eindhoven neighborhoods on price — 67% 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 Zwaanstraat sits in the upper band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €396,000 to €679,000, up 71% — faster than the city as a whole (+57%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 76% 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, Zwaanstraat is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (44% of its 1,365 residents), followed by children under 15 at 29%. 53% of households have children at home, so expect school runs, playgrounds in use, and neighbors who stay put. The average household counts 2.7 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: 62% 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 1.2 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 18 min walk · GP 18 min · hospital 3.5 km · library 3.0 km · 4 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: the nearest primary school is 11 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.7 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 4-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 6-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.3 km away; households here average 1.9 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Energy and running costs

With 96% of homes built after 2000, insulation standards here are decent by default — but newer also means VvE service costs for apartments and less room to add value through renovation. Different math, not automatically better.

Before you bid in Zwaanstraat

Before you bid in Zwaanstraat: 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, 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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