Fatima West, Tilburg

Living in Fatima West

Fatima West is densely built and genuinely urban, and the housing is dominated by single-family houses (92%), which is what draws settlers rather than passers-through.

With 12,369 residents per km², you will know your streets are alive — and so will your ears; visit on a Friday evening before you commit.

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 Fatima West

The average home value (WOZ) in Fatima West is €319,000, which puts it at #89 of 200 neighborhoods in Tilburg — 9% 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 Fatima West sits in the middle band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2017 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €166,000 to €336,000, up 102% — faster than the city as a whole (+93%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

With 80% 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, Fatima West is shaped by people in their late twenties to early forties (34% of its 1,960 residents), followed by 45-to-65 year olds at 24%. Households split into 49% singles and 26% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 1.8 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 41% of households are in the lower national bracket.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 8 minutes' walk; there are about 18 cafés and restaurants within walking distance — enough choice without the crowds.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 12 min walk · GP 5 min · hospital 2.0 km · library 3.2 km · 3 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 5 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 6-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the station is a 9-minute cycle, standard Dutch commuting range; a highway on-ramp 1.5 km away makes car trips easy — check whether through-traffic noise reaches the street you're considering; car ownership is moderate (0.8 per household).

Energy and running costs

100% 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 Fatima West

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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