Notre Dame, Tilburg

Living in Notre Dame

Notre Dame is city living in its most compact form, and the stock is a genuine mix of apartments and family houses (34% houses).

At 5,609 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

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 Notre Dame

The average home value (WOZ) in Notre Dame is €277,000, which puts it at #150 of 202 neighborhoods in Tilburg — 13% cheaper than most of the city, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Tilburg's cheapest buurt averages €136,000 and its priciest €1,053,000, so Notre Dame sits in the middle of the pack.

The direction of the market: between 2017 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €170,000 to €277,000, up 63% — slower than the city as a whole (+93%). WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Ownership is split: 41% owner-occupied against 58% rental, including 45% 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, Notre Dame is one of the older neighborhoods in the city — seniors form the largest group (31% of its 1,490 residents), followed by 25-to-45 year olds at 27%. More than half of all households (59%) are single-person — this is a neighborhood of independents, not minivans. The average household counts 1.6 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes lean modest — 56% of households are among the country's lower earners.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: plan your groceries: the nearest large supermarket is 1.0 km away; dining out means a short trip: only 6 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 13 min walk · GP 4 min · hospital 2.7 km · library 2.1 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 7 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 train station is 14 minutes on foot — commuting without a car is the natural choice; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.6 km away; car ownership is moderate (0.7 per household).

Energy and running costs

Since 90% 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 Notre Dame

Before you bid in Notre Dame: with many older residents, more homes will come to market here over the coming years than the recent past suggests — patience can pay.

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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