neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Bellamybuurt-Zuid
3,860 residents · postal code 1053 · Part of Bellamybuurt, Amsterdam
Everything close by, safety lags
Not a single home in Bellamybuurt-Zuid is a single-family house bar two per cent, and population density is among the highest in the Netherlands. The 3.1 for quiet & nature follows directly from that: there is little greenery within three hundred metres, and the tree canopy stays below the national median.
The wealth & income pillar is partly strong here and partly not, and that is no limp compromise but exactly what the figures say. Property values sit well above the Dutch median and the share of high incomes is nearly double the national one, but vacancy is twice as high as in the average neighbourhood and the number of social assistance claims per thousand residents a multiple of that. Expensive homes and heavy benefit dependency on the same streets.
For safety there is a 2.9, and it cannot be put down to theft alone: violence occurs here almost twice as often as at the Dutch median. It adds up to a good double the national reported-offence rate.
- no. 8,151 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 264 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Bellamybuurt-Zuid scores
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Is Bellamybuurt-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bellamybuurt-Zuid comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bellamybuurt-Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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, 380 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
Bellamybuurt-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 49%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4549%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
24,719 — 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 Bellamybuurt-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Bellamybuurt-Zuid comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Bellamybuurt-Zuid 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 Bellamybuurt-Zuid?
In Bellamybuurt-Zuid the police recorded 380 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (52 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 Bellamybuurt-Zuid calculated?
Bellamybuurt-Zuid scores 5.3 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 Bellamybuurt-Zuid 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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