neighbourhood in Amstelveen

Van der Leekbuurt

2,775 residents · postal code 1185 · Part of Keizer Karelpark, Amstelveen

Top 22% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

One in five homes in the Van der Leekbuurt is vacant — five times the national level, and that with a property value far above the Dutch middle. Those two figures side by side are unusual, and they make the 7.7 for wealth & income less clear-cut than it looks: incomes and the social assistance rate point the same way as the property value, vacancy does not.

Quiet & nature comes out at a 3.0, and noise is the decisive factor. It sits ten decibels above the Dutch median here, a difference you notice indoors. Greenery within a three-hundred-metre radius meanwhile stays well below the national middle.

The 9.8 for families comes from the primary school four hundred metres away and from the forty per cent of households with children. On safety, burglary stands out: it is almost four times the national middle while theft and vandalism sit below it. A 5.4 with a total under the median is exactly what you expect when one heavily weighted type breaks ranks.

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no. 15 of 45 in Amstelveen

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Is Van der Leekbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Van der Leekbuurt comes out at 22 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.

Total crime

22.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.2 per 1,000

Property crime

7.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 80 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

0.9 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

6.2 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

0.7 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

€ 646,000

Welfare recipients

10.8 per 1,000

High incomes

33%

Low incomes

32%

Vacancy

20%

Owner-occupied

47%

Social housing

29%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

57%

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

5,519 inw/km²

Noise level

62 dB

Green surroundings

37%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,515

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

40%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Van der Leekbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 18%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
40% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,519 — 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 Van der Leekbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Van der Leekbuurt comes out at 22 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 Van der Leekbuurt?

In Van der Leekbuurt the police recorded 80 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Van der Leekbuurt calculated?

Van der Leekbuurt scores 8.4 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 Van der Leekbuurt 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.