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The priciest district in Amsterdam is 96% flats and two-thirds rented; in Tilburg it is nearly all owner-occupied houses. Wealth looks nothing alike across the country.

In The Hague the average home runs from about 230,000 euro in one district to 939,000 euro in another, a fourfold gap. Your neighbourhood sets the price, not your city.

In Haarlem the supermarket, school, GP and daycare sit a combined 2.1km from the average front door. In the most spread-out district it is seven. The Netherlands' real 15-minute neighbourhoods.

In Amsterdam the average household owns half a car. In the centre of Groningen it is barely a fifth. A map of the country's most, and least, car-free places.

We let our data pick the top neighbourhood for each of six expat types. The winners span Rotterdam, Groningen, Tilburg, Amsterdam and Amstelveen, and only one district takes two.

From 4% to 63%: in some Dutch districts most residents were born abroad, in others almost none. A map of where the international Netherlands actually lives.

Utrecht is the youngest of the 17 cities we cover, with an average age near 37; 's-Hertogenbosch is the oldest at about 42 and a half. The whole spread is only five years.

The Randstad cities are pricier, denser and far more international than the rest. But the gap is smaller than you would think on rent, and the cities outside it are notably older.

The Hague is the most international of the 17 cities we cover, at 39 percent, just ahead of Amsterdam. The surprise in the top three: the suburb of Amstelveen.

Across the 17 cities we cover, average home values run from about €296k in Maastricht to about €536k in Amstelveen. The surprise: Amsterdam is not the priciest, it ranks fourth.