azc Amersfoort (Barchman Wuytierslaan)
The asylum centre on the Barchman Wuytierslaan in Amersfoort is a long-standing COA location housing around 300 people, with temporary units for a further 300 added beside the main building from December 2022. The COA has sought to keep the temporary units for several more years and to renovate the older buildings, ultimately expanding to around 400 permanent places. No verified site-specific incidents were found.
Occupancy
388
people (Aug 2025)
Per night
€80
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€11m
estimated
Background
The site sits at Barchman Wuytierslaan, Amersfoort. It is run by the COA (Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers), the Dutch government’s asylum-reception agency. For what the azc / noodopvang categories mean and how Dutch reception spending breaks down, open the cost panel on the interactive map with the Netherlands selected in Settings.
In the news
2025
Background on Amersfoort reception locations
The municipality of Amersfoort set out the Barchman Wuytierslaan centre's capacity and the COA's plans to extend the temporary units and expand to about 400 permanent places.
Gemeente Amersfoort · source
Compiled from public Dutch news reports (each item links to its source). Where a municipality runs more than one reception location, attribution to this specific address reflects the cited report and may be approximate — always check the linked source.
Timeline
Dec 2022
Temporary units added
The COA placed temporary units for around 300 extra asylum seekers next to the existing centre.
Cost
Dutch asylum reception is funded by central government through the COA. At an illustrative benchmark of about €80 per person per night for a regular centre, the 388 people recorded here on 13 August 2025 imply roughly €11m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — emergency reception typically runs around three times the cost of a regular centre.
Sources
COA / Rijksoverheid (Kamerstuk, 5 Sep 2025) · 2025-08-13. View source
Occupancy is the COA register snapshot of 13 August 2025 and may have changed since. Coordinates were geocoded from the published street address via the official PDOK Locatieserver.