Apartments, rooms and studios for rent in Nijmegen

Nijmegen apartments for rent and student rooms come from one tight rental market, shaped by Radboud University and HAN University of Applied Sciences. Based on over 10,000 listings tracked by RentHunter in Nijmegen since February 2024, the average rent is €1,029 a month for 51 m², with 80% of listings between €488 and €1,740.

Today's price level sits lower: new listings in the 90 days to October 2026 had a median asking rent of €764, and asking rents are stable, 2% higher than three months earlier and 3% higher than a year earlier. About 75 new homes appear on RentHunter each week (28 days to October 2026). With 173,557 inhabitants, Nijmegen is the largest city in Gelderland, and every August its room market fills with students starting in September.

Three numbers surprise newcomers. 23% of listings target students, 41% are listed as furnished, and 58% state that registration at the address is possible, which you need for a BSN.

Nijmegen's rental stock splits into four types with very different prices: apartments make up 48% of listings, rooms 37%, studios 8% and houses 7%. For a student budget, the real choice is between a room around €607 and a studio around €1,024.

A room in Nijmegen costs around €607 a month for about 19 m², based on 3,750 room listings, and it remains the cheapest way to live within cycling distance of campus. Many rooms are in shared houses in older streets near the station, where the current tenants pick the next housemate at a hospiteeravond: an evening viewing where several candidates meet the house and the residents choose.

Browse rooms in Nijmegen, or narrow your search to furnished rooms in Nijmegen if you arrive with one suitcase.

A studio in Nijmegen averages €1,024 a month for 37 m², with your own kitchen and bathroom, which can make you eligible for huurtoeslag (rent benefit) where a room with shared facilities usually cannot. Apartments average €1,285 for 70 m² and suit couples or two friends sharing the rent; they cost 6% more than apartments in Arnhem at €1,216.

Compare studios in Nijmegen with apartments for rent in Nijmegen. For a group of three or four, houses in Nijmegen average €1,546 for 113 m².

SSH& is the main student housing provider in Nijmegen, renting rooms and studios to students of Radboud University and HAN, and how long you have been registered on its website often decides who gets a home. Register as soon as you have your admission letter, even if you also search privately.

Regular social housing in the Arnhem Nijmegen region has waiting lists of years, so most students and young workers rent from private landlords or through an estate agent (makelaar). A makelaar who works for the landlord may not charge you a fee.

Nijmegen's student life runs from the Heyendaal campus in the south through the center to Lent across the Waal, and most areas are a short bike ride from campus.

The Heyendaal area in Nijmegen holds Radboud University, HAN and the Radboudumc hospital, and has its own train station, Nijmegen Heyendaal. Brakkenstein and Hazenkamp next to it are quieter, with family homes and rooms rented out by owners, so you can walk to lectures.

Bottendaal and Altrade in Nijmegen are older neighborhoods of narrow terraced streets close to the station, and many of their houses are split into student rooms. The Grote Markt and the bars of the Molenstraat are a few minutes by bike, and the campus about ten.

Lent, in Nijmegen-Noord across the Waal bridges, has newer houses and apartments and its own station, Nijmegen Lent. You get more space for the money, but a longer ride to campus.

When the city itself is too tight, look just across the municipal border: Berg en Dal to the east, Heumen with Malden south of the campus, and Beuningen to the west.

1. Check registration before you pay
   In Nijmegen, 58% of listings state that registration at the address is possible. Ask the landlord in writing before you transfer anything, because without registration you get no BSN and no huurtoeslag.
2. Book the gemeente Nijmegen appointment
   A first registration from abroad happens by appointment with the municipality of Nijmegen, so book it as soon as your lease is signed. Moving from another Dutch city, you register online with DigiD within 5 days.
3. Check huurtoeslag before choosing a studio
   Huurtoeslag is meant for a self-contained home with its own front door, kitchen and toilet, so in Nijmegen it usually applies to a studio at €1,024, not to a room at €607.
4. Line up a guarantor early
   Private landlords and makelaars in Nijmegen check income against the rent, and a student without a salary usually needs a guarantor, often a parent, who signs a guarantee statement.
5. Read the deposit and contract type
   The deposit in Nijmegen averages 1.09 months of rent, and by law it may not exceed two months of base rent. Leases are open-ended by default, but a student contract can end when you stop studying, so check which one you are signing.