Living and housing in Kepez

2026-10-08 · Author: Grand Emlak

Kepez is Antalya's most populous district: a broad residential area north of the centre where old industrial sites have become parks and museums.

Location and transport

According to the Antalya Governorship, Kepez borders Aksu to the east, Muratpaşa to the south, Konyaaltı to the south-west and Döşemealtı to the north and north-west. The district covers 397,869 decares, of which 86,211 are farmed; neighbourhoods such as Kızıllı, Çamlıca, Kirişçiler, Duacı and Odabaşı lie in forested areas. Source: Antalya Governorship, accessed 08.10.2026

According to the District Governorate, the district was formed under Law No. 5747 by merging the Kütükçü, Duacılar, Sütçüler and Göçerler neighbourhoods with the town of Varsak; the first district governor took office on 30 June 2008. Source: Kepez District Governorate, accessed 08.10.2026

According to TurkStat's year-end 2025 Address-Based Population Registration System results, Kepez has 649,102 inhabitants and is Antalya's most populous district. The District Governorate's table shows a 2009 population of 394,672, an increase of roughly 254,000 people in sixteen years. Source: Wikipedia (TurkStat ADNKS 2025), accessed 08.10.2026 Source: Kepez District Governorate, accessed 08.10.2026

According to the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism's publication "Dünden Bugüne Antalya", the wholesale market, the intercity bus terminal, the Düden Waterfall and the zoo lie within Kepez; Varsak is 11 km from the Antalya centre and 13 km from the sea. Source: Antalya Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism (Dünden Bugüne Antalya), accessed 08.10.2026

Antray's Varsak–Müze line, which began carrying passengers on 25 October 2021, links Varsak to the city centre via the bus terminal, Antalya Training and Research Hospital and Müze; transfers are possible to the Fatih–Airport–Expo line. Source: Antalya Ulaşım, accessed 08.10.2026

Antalya Airport is 13 km from the city centre, reached by Metropolitan Municipality buses and trams, airport taxis and HAVAŞ shuttles. Source: DHMİ (State Airports Authority), accessed 08.10.2026

Neighbourhoods and their character

According to the municipality's history, until the early 1970s Antalya's city limit ended north of the old SSK Hospital; the area was first known as "Dikili Taşlar" and later "Çallı". Its industrial fabric grew with the Textile Factory (1955), the Kepez Power Plant (1955), the Ferrochrome plant (1957), the Rubber plant (1964), the Oil Industry (1969) and the Battery Factory (1976); Kepez Municipality was founded in 1994. Source: Kepez Municipality, accessed 08.10.2026

Özgürlük and DokumaPark

DokumaPark in Özgürlük occupies the site of the Antalya Yarn and Cotton Weaving Factory, founded in the 1950s and closed on 13 January 2003. The park contains the Antalya Science Centre, the Once Upon a Time Antalya Museum, the Anatolian Toy Museum, the Nostalgic Vehicles Museum, the Textile Museum, the Cemil Meriç Library, a botanical garden and an orange grove. Source: Kepez Municipality, accessed 08.10.2026

Varsak and Düden

Varsak was a village until 1973 and then a town; the internationally known Düden Waterfall lies physically and geographically within the former town's boundaries. The publication describes Varsak as a settlement that has recently seen a large increase in mass housing. Source: Antalya Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism (Dünden Bugüne Antalya), accessed 08.10.2026

According to the Metropolitan Municipality's waterfall guide, the Upper Düden, also known as the İskender Waterfall, is surrounded by the remains of the 2,200-year-old ancient city of Lyrboton Kome; the site is now run as a dining and recreation area by the Metropolitan Municipality's subsidiaries. Source: Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, accessed 08.10.2026

Göçerler, Altınova and Duacı

Antalya City Hospital in Göçerler opened in 2023; built on 372,000 square metres of land with 285,000 square metres of floor area, the 1,500-bed hospital rests on 718 seismic isolators. Source: Antalya City Hospital, accessed 08.10.2026

Mall of Antalya in Altınova Sinan has a tram stop in front, while Kepez Adventure Forest in Duacı offers a riding club, adventure course, climbing wall and paintball field on 117,000 square metres. Source: Mall of Antalya, accessed 08.10.2026 Source: Kepez Municipality, accessed 08.10.2026

Table source: Kepez Municipality – "Antalya's breath, Kepez" (19 August 2024), accessed 08.10.2026.

Daily life: libraries, culture and green space

The Antalya Library in Gülveren welcomed 1,046,504 users in 2024; it houses children's, youth, fine arts and rare works libraries as well as an academic study hall. Source: Kepez Municipality, accessed 08.10.2026

According to the Turkish State Meteorological Service's 1930–2025 records, Antalya's mean temperature is 10.1 °C in January and 28.6 °C in July, with average daily sunshine of 11.7 hours in July. Source: Turkish State Meteorological Service, accessed 08.10.2026

Who chooses Kepez?

The Provincial Directorate's publication describes Kepez as a district where informal housing once predominated but which is becoming a centre of attraction through zoning, infrastructure and social investment; mass housing growth in Varsak is part of that change. No official buyer-profile data exists, so we go no further. Source: Antalya Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism (Dünden Bugüne Antalya), accessed 08.10.2026

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