neighbourhood in Amstelveen
Uilenstede
3,855 residents · postal code 1183 · Part of Uilenstede, Kronenburg, Amstelveen
Everything close by, except school and childcare
Uilenstede is a statistical odd one out. Virtually every household consists of a single person, there is no owner-occupied housing, and both the share of residents under fifteen and the share over 65 are negligible. This is not a neighbourhood with an age structure; it is one with a resident type.
The wealth & income pillar shows something there you rarely see. Four in five households have a low income — a good double the national share — while the number of social assistance claims per thousand residents sits below the Dutch median. Low incomes without social assistance is a combination that explains the 3.5 and qualifies it at the same time.
On safety, none of the four recorded types of offence sits above the national median, and vandalism occurs almost four times less often. That yields an 8.3. The 3.5 for families comes from the other side: the primary school is a good kilometre away, and that distance together with childcare accounts for most of that pillar.
- no. 8,823 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 36 of 45 in Amstelveen
How Uilenstede scores
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Is Uilenstede a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Uilenstede comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Uilenstede 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, 76 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
Uilenstede has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 68%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–151%
NL median 14%
- 15–2568%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–652%
NL median 28%
- 65+0%
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
1.1 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
95% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
1% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
19,317 — 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 Uilenstede a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Uilenstede comes out at 16 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Uilenstede 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 Uilenstede?
In Uilenstede the police recorded 76 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 Uilenstede calculated?
Uilenstede scores 4.9 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 Uilenstede 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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