Buitengebied Ten Post, Groningen

Living in Buitengebied Ten Post

Buitengebied Ten Post is more village than city in feel, and most of its 120 homes are houses rather than apartments — front doors, gardens, street parking.

With just 22 residents per km², this is space by Dutch standards.

Groningen is a student city first: a substantial share of residents are enrolled somewhere, rental demand is constant, and buyers compete for a limited stock of family homes. For older properties in the wider region, ask about earthquake and subsidence history linked to the gas field.

The housing market in Buitengebied Ten Post

The average home value (WOZ) in Buitengebied Ten Post is €200,000, which puts it at #100 of 100 neighborhoods in Groningen — 37% below the city median, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Groningen's cheapest buurt averages €200,000 and its most expensive €813,000, so Buitengebied Ten Post sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value here fell from €305,000 to €192,000, down 37% — slower than the city as a whole (+69%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Here is the catch for buyers: only 22% of homes are owner-occupied. Few homes come up for sale, so when one does, expect competition and act fast on viewings. The upside of the same number: neighborhoods with a big rental base tend to feel lively and transient rather than settled — decide which you want before you fall for a listing.

Who lives here

Demographically, Buitengebied Ten Post is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (32% of its 170 residents), followed by over-65s at 22%. Households split into 28% singles and 35% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.5 people.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 4.1 km away; this is not a going-out neighborhood — the cafés are elsewhere.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 47 min walk · GP 47 min · hospital 15.0 km · library 4.1 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 14 minutes on foot; daycare is 1.2 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 46-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 6.9 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; a highway on-ramp 0.5 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; households here average 1.6 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Energy and running costs

With 79% 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 Buitengebied Ten Post

Before you bid in Buitengebied Ten Post: listings are scarce here, which pushes bidding above asking more often — decide your maximum before the viewing, not during it. Also, the price gap with the rest of Groningen is real, but so is the reason for it — walk the neighborhood at different times of day before committing.

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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