neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Botteskerkbuurt

3,415 residents · postal code 1069 · Part of Osdorp-Midden, Amsterdam

Top 50% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Botteskerkbuurt in Amsterdam has a social assistance rate nearly nine times the national middle and at the same time a 9.7 for families. Those two figures describe the same households and do not contradict each other: the families score mainly measures how close school and childcare are, and the primary school here is four hundred metres away.

The wealth & income pillar is weak across the board. Property values are below the Dutch median, more than half of households have a low income and the share of high incomes is clearly below the national middle. Only vacancy is lower than average.

The safety score of 4.4 comes not from one outlier but from a broad pattern: violence, burglary and vandalism are all three above the median, property crime just under it. For a neighbourhood with a density of more than fourteen thousand residents per square kilometre that is a moderate picture.

no. 6,484 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 199 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Botteskerkbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

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

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

28.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

8.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 137 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

0.5 km

Train station

4.7 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

3.7 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

3.4 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

€ 363,000

Welfare recipients

70.3 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

51%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

20%

Social housing

66%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

40%

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

14,324 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,804

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

37%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

1.4 km

Residents under 15

21%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Botteskerkbuurt has strikingly many children under 15: 21%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1521%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+12%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
37% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
14,324 — 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 Botteskerkbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Botteskerkbuurt 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 Botteskerkbuurt?

In Botteskerkbuurt the police recorded 137 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 Botteskerkbuurt calculated?

Botteskerkbuurt scores 6.3 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 Botteskerkbuurt 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.