St. Anna, Nijmegen

Living in St. Anna

St. Anna is urban but not overwhelming, and the stock is a genuine mix of apartments and family houses (56% houses).

At 6,018 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 St. Anna

The average home value (WOZ) in St. Anna is €385,000, which puts it at #16 of 40 neighborhoods in Nijmegen — 10% above the city median. You pay for the location here. For scale: Nijmegen's cheapest buurt averages €228,000 and its most expensive €644,000, so St. Anna sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2015 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €198,000 to €415,000, up 110% — roughly in step with the rest of the city. WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Ownership is split: 55% owner-occupied against 44% rental, including 29% social housing. Enough homes trade hands to give you comparable sales, but check what's actually for sale versus rented in the specific block you're eyeing — the mix can flip from one street to the next.

Who lives here

Demographically, St. Anna is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (29% of its 3,475 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 24%. Households split into 54% singles and 22% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 1.8 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: this is a neighborhood of contrasts — 48% of households sit in the lower national income bracket, yet the average income per resident is €36,000 a year. Social housing and expensive owner-occupied homes stand side by side here, which is common in Dutch inner cities.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

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

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 7 min walk · GP 7 min · hospital 1.3 km · library 1.9 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 (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 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; a highway on-ramp 2.0 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; car ownership is moderate (0.7 per household).

Energy and running costs

95% 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 St. Anna

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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