neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Ambonpleinbuurt

3,750 residents · postal code 1094 · Part of Indische Buurt-West, Amsterdam

Bottom 31% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

On amenities the Ambonpleinbuurt scores a 10.0 — the GP, the supermarket, a restaurant and the station are all a couple of hundred metres away. That same position produces a 2.6 for quiet & nature: hardly any greenery, a lot of noise and over twenty-three thousand residents per square kilometre.

The 7.8 for families is misleading if you read young families into it. That pillar mainly weighs the distance to schooling and childcare, and here that distance is short; the share of children in the neighbourhood is actually below the national picture. A high families score here means education within reach, not a neighbourhood with many children.

The wealth & income pillar diverges: property values are above the national median, but half the households are in the bottom income group and social assistance is almost ten times the middle. Hence a 4.4.

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no. 317 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Ambonpleinbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ambonpleinbuurt comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

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

Total crime

29.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.4 per 1,000

Property crime

13.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 158 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.2 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.0 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

3.1 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

€ 453,000

Welfare recipients

77.3 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

50%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

22%

Social housing

73%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

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

23,752 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

26%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

8,158

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

0.6 km

Households with children

28%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Ambonpleinbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+17%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
23,752 — 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 Ambonpleinbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ambonpleinbuurt comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Ambonpleinbuurt?

In Ambonpleinbuurt the police recorded 158 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Ambonpleinbuurt calculated?

Ambonpleinbuurt scores 4.8 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 Ambonpleinbuurt 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.