Rooms for Rent in Amersfoort

A room for rent in Amersfoort costs around €611 a month, 12% less than the €698 average in Utrecht, which is 21 minutes away by train. Based on over 600 room listings tracked in Amersfoort by RentHunter since February 2024, 80% of rooms ask between €418 and €787, and the average room measures 20 m².

The Amersfoort room market serves two groups at once. 35% of listings target students, many of whom attend classes in Utrecht, and 9% are aimed at expats. Most offers are a room in a shared house or flat, a flatshare where you have your own bedroom and share the kitchen and bathroom. A studio with its own kitchen and shower is a different type of rental, closer to the apartments in Amersfoort.

Locals call Amersfoort Keistad, after the Amersfoortse Kei, a large boulder that residents dragged into town in the 17th century. With 154,337 inhabitants it is the second city of Utrecht province, and its medieval centre, its three railway stations and its price gap with Utrecht decide where you will find a room.

Room rents in Amersfoort average €611 a month, and 80% of listings fall between €418 and €787. For that money the average room measures 20 m², so compare the price per square metre when two rooms look alike. Read the listing before you react: some rents are quoted all in, with energy and internet included, while others add service costs on top of the base rent.

Compared with Utrecht, where rooms average €698, a room in Amersfoort saves about €87 a month. Rooms in Soest and rooms in Zeist, between Amersfoort and Utrecht, are worth a look when nothing fits in the city itself.

The current price level confirms these averages: the median asking rent of rooms first seen on RentHunter in the 90 days to October 2026 was €613, stable compared with the three months before. Deposits average 1.03 months of rent, well under the legal cap of two months for leases signed since 1 July 2023.

Outdoor space and extras are rare in this segment. 17% of listings mention a garden, 9% a balcony and 6% parking, and 2% say pets are allowed. 49% state that you can register at the address, which you must do at the gemeente within 5 days of moving in.

Room listings in Amersfoort spread over the old town inside the medieval canals, the streets around the station and the newer districts in the north east. Each area trades rent, space and the walk to Amersfoort Centraal in a different way.

The Amersfoort binnenstad packs rooms into narrow houses inside the ring of medieval canals, on streets such as Langestraat, Kamp and the Muurhuizen, houses built into the old city wall. The 98 metre Lange Jan tower and the Koppelpoort gate are a short walk away, and the Hof square hosts the market. Rooms here are often small, above shops and reached by steep stairs, with no garden, and they suit students and starters who prefer cafés to outdoor space.

The Soesterkwartier is the Amersfoort district just west of the railway, with older terraced streets, newer infill and the Soesterweg running toward Soest. A room for rent in Amersfoort's Soesterkwartier puts you a few minutes on foot from the platforms of Amersfoort Centraal, which counts if you commute every day. Shared houses in this district suit young workers and students who travel to Utrecht.

Vathorst, in the north east of Amersfoort, is the city's newest large district, built since the early 2000s around canals and served by Amersfoort Vathorst station. Rooms there are rarer and more often in family homes, sometimes as a hospita room where the owner lives in the same house. A hospita room gives the tenant less protection in the first nine months, so check that detail in the contract before you sign.

Amersfoort Centraal is one of the main rail junctions of the Netherlands, where the lines to Utrecht, Amsterdam, Zwolle and Apeldoorn meet and the Valleilijn leaves for Ede. From a room near the station, Eindhoven is about 73 minutes away and Groningen about 85 minutes, so a car is rarely needed, which helps since 6% of room listings mention parking.

Utrecht is about 21 minutes from Amersfoort by public transit, the route most students take to Utrecht University and HU University of Applied Sciences. Several trains run every hour, and a young worker who rents a room in Amersfoort keeps about €87 a month compared with a room in Utrecht.

Amsterdam is about 39 minutes from Amersfoort by public transit, with direct intercity trains from Amersfoort Centraal. A room for rent in Amersfoort suits young professionals who work in Amsterdam a few days a week and live in a quieter town the rest of the time.

Den Haag is about 53 minutes from Amersfoort and Rotterdam about 62 minutes, usually with a change at Utrecht Centraal. These longer trips work for people on a hybrid contract who travel two or three days a week rather than every day.