Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West, Tilburg

Living in Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West

Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West is quiet and low-density, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (96%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

With just 20 residents per km², this is space by Dutch standards.

Tilburg offers some of the most affordable urban living in the south of the country, with a growing university presence and former textile-industry areas steadily converting into housing. Your euro buys noticeably more square meters here than in the Randstad.

The housing market in Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West

The average home value (WOZ) in Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West is €659,000, which puts it at #11 of 200 neighborhoods in Tilburg — 126% above the city median. You pay for the location here. For scale: Tilburg's cheapest buurt averages €113,000 and its most expensive €910,000, so Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West sits in the upper band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2019 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €569,000 to €702,000, up 23% — slower than the city as a whole (+63%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 86% 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, Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West is dominated by established households in the 45-to-65 bracket (38% of its 140 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 23%. 40% 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.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 4.2 km away; this is not a going-out neighborhood — the cafés are elsewhere.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 36 min walk · GP 36 min · hospital 8.6 km · library 4.6 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 37 minutes on foot; daycare is 3.2 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 13-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 13-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 1.9 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; households here average 2.1 cars, so assume driveways and parking are part of daily logistics.

Energy and running costs

Since 88% 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 Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West

Before you bid in Buitengebied Gilzerbaan West: 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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