neighbourhood in Amstelveen

Elsrijk Oost

3,985 residents · postal code 1181 · Part of Elsrijk, Amstelveen

Top 13% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Elsrijk Oost scores a 9.8 for families and the figure stands on two legs: the primary school is four hundred metres away and more than four in ten households have children. Usually distance alone carries such a score.

The 3.2 for quiet & nature is the mirror image and just as traceable. The noise level is more than five decibels above the national median and surface water is entirely absent; those two measurements together carry two fifths of the pillar. Greenery and tree canopy do not make up for it, and neither do the nearly eight thousand residents per square kilometre. The safety score of 6.4 also comes from a single component. Total reported offences stay below the national median and violence is around half of it, but burglary comes out three times above, and that counts for more than a quarter of the pillar.

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no. 7 of 45 in Amstelveen

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Is Elsrijk Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elsrijk Oost comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

21.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.9 per 1,000

Property crime

8.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 108 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.7 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

4.4 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.4 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

1.4 km

Tick = Dutch median

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Wealth & income

What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.

Property value

€ 587,000

Welfare recipients

20.1 per 1,000

High incomes

34%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

55%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

41%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

7,948 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

41%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

3,802

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 µg/m³

Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.

Tick = Dutch median

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.4 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

21%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Elsrijk Oost has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1521%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+16%
NL median 22%

Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.

Average household size
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,948 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364

Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.

Frequently asked questions

Is Elsrijk Oost a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elsrijk Oost comes out at 21 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Elsrijk Oost?

In Elsrijk Oost the police recorded 108 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.

How is the grade for Elsrijk Oost calculated?

Elsrijk Oost scores 9.1 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Elsrijk Oost lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.