neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Balboaplein e.o.

2,950 residents · postal code 1057 · Part of Hoofdweg e.o., Amsterdam

Bottom 35% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Few neighbourhoods in the Netherlands come as close to a ten for amenities as Balboaplein e.o.: with a 9.9, this corner off the Hoofdweg ranks in the national top hundred. Restaurant, GP and supermarket are all a few minutes' walk away; only the railway station takes a journey.

Against that stands a 2.8 for quiet & nature, and that is not a contradiction but the same cause. More than twenty-five thousand residents per square kilometre leave little room for greenery, noise levels are above the national median, and there is no surface water at all.

On safety the temptation is to write the busy-city picture: plenty of stolen goods, nothing else going on. That only half holds here. Property offences do run at more than double the national median, but violence and criminal damage are both above it too. The 3.3 rests on more than vanished bicycles.

no. 8,533 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 282 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Balboaplein e.o. a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Balboaplein e.o. comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Balboaplein e.

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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

39.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

20.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 202 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

0.3 km

Train station

2.7 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

0.1 km

Library

0.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 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

€ 446,000

Welfare recipients

57.6 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

22%

Social housing

32%

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

25,269 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

31%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

10,925

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.5 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

17%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Balboaplein e.o. has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 46%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4546%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
25,269 — 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 Balboaplein e.o. a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Balboaplein e.o. comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Balboaplein e.o. is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. 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 Balboaplein e.o.?

In Balboaplein e.o. the police recorded 202 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Balboaplein e.o. calculated?

Balboaplein e.o. scores 5.1 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 Balboaplein e.o. 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.