neighbourhood in Amstelveen
Kastanjebuurt
2,315 residents · postal code 1185 · Part of Keizer Karelpark, Amstelveen
Everything for children close by, and little room
Burglary is the story behind the 5.2 for safety in the Kastanjebuurt: break-ins per thousand residents run more than four times above the national median here, while violence stays below it. Read the headline figure quickly and you think of trouble on the street; what the breakdown shows is a neighbourhood where the risk is at the front door.
The 9.0 for amenities is more remarkable than it looks, because the railway station is more than six kilometres away and carries real weight in that pillar. Everything else — shop, GP, food — is a few minutes on foot, and that fully offsets the distance to the tracks. Against it stands a 3.0 for quiet & nature: noise levels are almost nine decibels above the national median and there is markedly less greenery nearby than in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
- no. 2,389 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 45 in Amstelveen
How Kastanjebuurt scores
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Is Kastanjebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastanjebuurt comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 82 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Kastanjebuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6528%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
33% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,923 — 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 Kastanjebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastanjebuurt comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Kastanjebuurt?
In Kastanjebuurt the police recorded 82 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Kastanjebuurt calculated?
Kastanjebuurt scores 8.6 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 Kastanjebuurt 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.
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