Apartments, rooms and studios for rent in Dronten

Dronten is a planned town in Flevoland, built from 1962 on polder land that fell dry in 1957, and its rental market has two kinds of tenant. Students of Aeres Hogeschool look for a room, while families and commuters want an apartment or a house with a garden. To rent in Dronten is to search a small market: based on over 800 listings tracked on RentHunter since February 2024, the average rent across all home types is €831 a month for 49 m², and 80% of listings ask between €352 and €1,650.

The municipality also covers the villages of Biddinghuizen and Swifterbant, so a listing in Dronten can sit in any of the three. 36% of listings target students and 8% target expats, and 88% state that you can register at the address.

• Apartments: €1,108 for 64 m² An apartment in Dronten averages €1,108 a month for 64 m², and apartments are the largest group at 42% of listings, 374 in total. Across all listings, 26% mention a balcony and 16% mention parking. Compare each available apartment, with its rent and floor area, in apartments for rent in Dronten.
• Rooms: €396 for 15 m² A room in Dronten averages €396 a month for 15 m², and rooms are 39% of listings, 342 in total, mostly aimed at Aeres students. A room is the cheapest place to live in town, at about a third of the apartment rent. Browse student rooms in Dronten from late spring if you start in September.
• Houses: €1,150 for 91 m² A house in Dronten averages €1,150 a month for 91 m², only €42 more than an apartment for 27 m² more space. Houses are 18% of listings, 155 in total, and 21% of all listings mention a garden. Look at houses for rent in Dronten if you want a home with your own garden and front door.

Dronten is a town of 40,746 people where daily errands sit in a compact center and farmland starts at the edge of every district.

Daily life in Dronten centers on De Rede, the main street where shops, cafés and a restaurant or two surround De Meerpaal, the town's cultural center with its theater. Outside the center the polder is flat farmland crossed by cycle paths, and Biddinghuizen, in the same municipality, hosts the Lowlands festival every August.

The nearest places to find apartments outside Dronten are Lelystad, Kampen and Elburg. Lelystad, the provincial capital, is the next stop west on the train, Kampen lies northeast across the Drontermeer, and Elburg sits southeast on the Gelderland shore.

Dronten station opened in 2012 on the Hanzelijn, the railway between Lelystad and Zwolle, and trains run from there toward Amsterdam and the north.

Amsterdam is 60 minutes from Dronten by public transit (74 km), short enough for a daily office commute.

Utrecht (117 km) and Groningen (133 km) are both 95 minutes from Dronten by public transit, workable for two office days a week. Den Haag takes 102 minutes, Rotterdam 107 and Eindhoven 158, better kept for occasional trips.