Elisabethshof, Paramaribo: What Is Published About the Housing Stock

A page about the housing stock of one Paramaribo neighborhood runs into a simple problem: the published housing data in Suriname is not measured at neighborhood level. It is measured on four broad zones, and Elisabethshof is not one of them. So this page does two things it can do honestly — it sets out what the published rent figures are and what they really measure, and it names the questions that a viewing answers and a web page cannot.

There is no rent figure measured for Elisabethshof

Our approved reference data covers Paramaribo-Noord, Paramaribo-Zuid, Paramaribo-Overig and Wanica. There is no rent figure measured for Elisabethshof, and we are not going to assign the neighborhood to one of those zones in order to produce a number. Which zone a given street is counted in is a decision inside the aggregation, not something we can see from here, and guessing it would put a precise figure on a guess.

The three figures are percentiles, not market segments

This is the single most misread thing about the data. The three rent figures published per zone are commonly labeled basic, comfortable and expatriate, as though they described three kinds of property. They do not. They are the 25th percentile, the median and the 75th percentile of one and the same collection of priced listings. One set of adverts; three cut points through it.

They are also asking prices rather than agreed rents. The note attached to every one of these values says: ASKING PRICES from the agency segment, not transaction prices and not a national average — they skew high, and they skew the way our audience shops. In other words: advertised, from the agency segment, skewed high and skewed towards how an international audience searches. That makes them a reasonable guide to what you will be quoted and a poor guide to what the housing in a neighborhood is worth.

What is published, zone by zone

Aggregated from the listings of five Surinamese agencies and attributed in our reference data to SuriHousing. Each line gives the 25th percentile, the median and the 75th percentile of the same set, in euros per month:

• Paramaribo-Noord: EUR 706 / EUR 1,250 / EUR 2,250 — 83 priced listings for the percentiles, measured 16 October 2026; 81 for the median, measured 5 October 2026; three outliers excluded by a Tukey 1.5×IQR fence.
• Paramaribo-Zuid: EUR 789 / EUR 1,417 / EUR 2,224 — 60 priced listings, measured 11 and 16 October 2026, none excluded.
• Paramaribo-Overig: EUR 950 / EUR 1,250 / EUR 2,500 — 77 priced listings for the 25th percentile, 79 for the other two, measured 5 and 16 October 2026, two excluded.
• Wanica: EUR 654 / EUR 975 / EUR 1,734 — 22 priced listings, a small sample, measured between 8 and 16 October 2026, one excluded.

Two cautions that come with the data rather than from us. The dates within a single line differ, so the three figures on one row are not all from the same week of adverts. And the sample sizes range from 83 down to 22, which means the zones are not equally well measured.

What we took out of the earlier version

Three claims have been removed because we could not trace them to any source:

• That demand in neighborhoods like this one had been driven up and supply strained by expansion in the oil sector. That is an attribution of cause, and we have no published series on either side of it — not on arrivals, not on the stock of housing.
• A framing of gated housing as a response to rising security concerns. We do not describe neighborhoods as safe or unsafe, or claim that risk is rising, because that is a statement about a real place and its residents, and no source we could read supports it.
• That local schools teach in English and follow North American or British standards. See below.

Also removed: a general description of what the streets are like and how residents treat each other, and a statement about where exactly the neighborhood sits in relation to the city center. Both read as scene-setting; both were unsourced.

The one school fee we can publish

The claim about English-language, North American or British curricula is the kind that moves a family across the world, so it should not stand without a source. The one school fee held in our approved reference data is for a mid-range private school in Paramaribo with a Dutch curriculum, published by the school itself for the 2025-2026 school year and read on 5 October 2026: EUR 124.72 per child per month for years 1 to 5, and EUR 149.67 per child per month for year 6 — USD 140 and USD 168 respectively. That is tuition only; registration adds a one-off USD 150 for book hire and SRD 250 in administration.

Public education costs less than that and the international schools cost considerably more, so treat this as one reference point and not a range. It is also a school in the city, not a statement about what stands in this particular neighborhood. Ask each school directly for its language of instruction, its curriculum and its current fee schedule, and do it in writing.

Reading a property, since the stock is not cataloged

No inventory of Elisabethshof's housing stock by type, age or condition is published anywhere we could read, so descriptions of what the houses are like have gone. The practical substitute is a list of what to establish at a viewing, in writing, for the specific property:

• Construction and condition: what is the structure made of, what has been replaced recently, and what does the landlord accept responsibility for repairing?
• Utilities: whose name is on each meter, are there arrears, is the electricity connection single-phase or heavier, and what has a comparable month cost the previous tenant?
• Water supply and storage, and what happens during an interruption.
• Back-up power: is there any, who owns it, and who pays for its fuel?
• Lease terms: duration, notice, deposit, the currency rent is payable in, and the grounds for an increase.
• Your own measured travel time from this address to work and school, at the hour you would travel.
• Fiber availability at this address, confirmed by the provider.

Utilities, with their real structure

Because the earlier version left utilities as "varies", here is what is published. Electricity: a standing charge of SRD 211.78 per month for a single-phase domestic connection, plus a stepped tariff — SRD 1.9710 per kWh up to 400 kWh, SRD 2.8500 from 401 to 900, SRD 3.3300 from 901 to 1,500 and SRD 4.6800 above that — from N.V. Energiebedrijven Suriname, recorded as in force on 1 December 2024. Internet: SRD 1,124.96 per month excluding BTW for Telesur's basic fiber package, up to 400 Mbps on a 24-month contract, read 5 October 2026; tax is not included, so the bill is higher. Water: no published tariff in our reference data, and we are not estimating one.

Where to check, and what we could not source

Rent percentiles: aggregated agency listings in our own reference data, attributed to SuriHousing, with dates and sample sizes above. Electricity: N.V. Energiebedrijven Suriname. Internet: Telesur. School fees: the school's own published schedule. All reference reading confirmed on 24 October 2026.

What we could not source, and therefore do not state: a rent level for Elisabethshof; any inventory or age profile of its housing stock; any claim about demand, supply or price direction in the neighborhood; any safety characterization; any description of its residents or its atmosphere; a water tariff; and the language of instruction at any school in the neighborhood. The housing stock question in the title is, as far as we can establish, simply not published at this level of detail.

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