Pick a Dutch city and you have made maybe a fifth of the decision. The rest is the neighbourhood. Across the cities we cover, the average home value swings so hard between districts that two addresses in the same city can differ by a factor of four. In The Hague, the range runs from about 230,000 euro in one district to 939,000 euro in another.
That is the widest internal split in the country, but every city has one. The lesson for anyone moving here is blunt: your city sets the range, your neighbourhood sets the price.
The full spread, city by city
The table shows, for each city, the district with the lowest average home value and the one with the highest, and how many times bigger the top is than the bottom. Figures are average property values per district, from official open data.
| City | Cheapest district | Priciest district | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hague | €230k, Moerwijk | €939k, Vogelwijk | 4.1x |
| Arnhem | €244k, Presikhaaf-Oost | €607k, Burgemeesterswijk | 2.5x |
| Tilburg | €234k, De Reit | €546k, De Blaak | 2.3x |
| Groningen | €241k, Nieuw-Noord | €504k, Haren-West | 2.1x |
| Amsterdam | €294k, Zuidoost | €602k, Zuid | 2.1x |
| Haarlem | €339k, Europawijk | €695k, Haarlemmerhout | 2.1x |
| Almere | €287k, Almere Stad | €587k, Oosterwold | 2.0x |
| Rotterdam | €238k, Charlois | €470k, Hillegersberg | 2.0x |
| Breda | €302k, Breda noord | €595k, Bavel | 2.0x |
| Utrecht | €324k, Overvecht | €608k, Vleuten-De Meern | 1.9x |
| Maastricht | €263k, Buitenwijk West | €493k, Buitenwijk Zuidwest | 1.9x |
| Nijmegen | €286k, Dukenburg | €504k, Nijmegen-Noord | 1.8x |
| Eindhoven | €307k, Centrum | €533k, Meerhoven | 1.7x |
| Den Bosch | €323k, West | €546k, Rosmalen-Zuid | 1.7x |
| Delft | €262k, Buitenhof | €433k, Binnenstad | 1.7x |
| Amstelveen | €441k, Groenelaan | €701k, Westwijk Zuid | 1.6x |
| Leiden | €347k, Boerhaavedistrict | €451k, Binnenstad-Zuid | 1.3x |
Read down the column and the pattern is clear. The biggest names are not the most divided. The Hague, Arnhem and Tilburg split hardest, while Leiden, compact and uniformly pricey, barely varies at all.
The Hague: a fourfold gap in one city
The Hague holds both ends of the spectrum. In Moerwijk, a post-war district in the south-west, the average home is worth around 230,000 euro. A few kilometres away in the Vogelwijk, near the dunes, it is about 939,000 euro. Same city, same municipality, four times the price.
The split maps onto the city's character. The inner south-western belt is dense, diverse and affordable, while the green districts near the coast hold the diplomatic and professional housing. The city average, around 342,000 euro, describes almost none of it.
Amsterdam: the metro line that doubles your budget
Amsterdam is less extreme but still stark. Zuidoost averages about 294,000 euro, while Zuid sits near 602,000 euro, just over double, and the two are a straight run apart on the same metro network.
It is the same story in Utrecht, where Overvecht at about 324,000 euro and Vleuten-De Meern at about 608,000 euro bracket the city, and in Rotterdam, from Charlois in the south to Hillegersberg in the north. The cheaper district is rarely far from the expensive one.
What this means if you are moving
The takeaway is that choosing a city narrows your options but does not set your costs. Within any of these cities there is a district at half the price of the dearest one, usually with a different feel, a different commute and a different crowd.
That is the decision our data is built for. You can compare every neighbourhood in a city on our six expat profiles, from affordability to family life, in the neighbourhood explorer, or start from the city overviews. One note on the figures: these are average values per district, and districts differ in size, so the extremes sit alongside plenty of middle ground.