Hazenkamp, Nijmegen

Living in Hazenkamp

Hazenkamp is densely built and genuinely urban, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (70%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

At 5,836 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

Nijmegen, the country's oldest city, has a university-driven rental market, a compact center and hilly, green surroundings that are genuinely rare in the Netherlands. Homes on the right side of the Waal bridge command a premium for the cycling commute.

The housing market in Hazenkamp

The average home value (WOZ) in Hazenkamp is €475,000, which puts it at #8 of 40 neighborhoods in Nijmegen — 36% above the city median. That premium is the location speaking. For scale: Nijmegen's cheapest buurt averages €228,000 and its most expensive €644,000, so Hazenkamp sits in the upper band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €250,000 to €501,000, up 100% — slower than the city as a whole (+108%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 79% 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, Hazenkamp is a young-adult neighborhood — the 25-to-45 group outnumbers everyone else (25% of its 5,190 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 25%. Households split into 40% singles and 29% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.1 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: 30% of households sit in the country's top income bracket — which helps explain both the café density and the bidding behavior; average income per resident is €39,000 a year.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 6 minutes' walk; dining out means a short trip: only 7 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 6 min walk · GP 8 min · hospital 1.6 km · library 1.4 km · 2 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 6 minutes on foot; daycare is well covered (5 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 2-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is an 8-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.8 km away; car ownership is moderate (0.8 per household).

Energy and running costs

Since 98% of the stock predates 2000, always check the energy label of a specific listing — the difference between label C and label F on an average home here is easily a few thousand euros a year in heating, and it changes what you can sensibly bid.

Before you bid in Hazenkamp

Before you bid in Hazenkamp: 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.

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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