neighbourhood in Amstelveen
Kastelenbuurt
3,040 residents · postal code 1187 · Part of Westwijk Zuid, Amstelveen
Well-off, but not spacious
Six in ten households in Kastelenbuurt have children and a quarter of residents are under fifteen. By Dutch standards this is a markedly young neighbourhood, and it was built almost entirely after the turn of the century.
Wealth & income holds up on every component: property values are far above the national median, there are many high-income households and few low-income ones, social assistance stays below the median and vacancy is all but absent. That produces a 9.6.
What it costs shows in two other figures. The station is more than ten kilometres away, which keeps amenities at a 5.3 despite a supermarket within a kilometre. And quiet & nature gets no further than a 3.2: the tree canopy is thinner than in most Dutch neighbourhoods and noise is above the national median.
- no. 908 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 45 in Amstelveen
How Kastelenbuurt scores
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Is Kastelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastelenbuurt comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kastelenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 56 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
Kastelenbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 26%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1526%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4526%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+5%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
62% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,145 — 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 Kastelenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Kastelenbuurt comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Kastelenbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Kastelenbuurt?
In Kastelenbuurt the police recorded 56 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (16 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 Kastelenbuurt calculated?
Kastelenbuurt scores 9.5 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 Kastelenbuurt 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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