neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Buiksloterham-Zuid

1,995 residents · postal code 1031 · Part of Noordelijke IJ-oevers-West, Amsterdam

Top 43% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Buiksloterham-Zuid was built almost entirely after 2000 and nearly half its surface is water. That last fact barely helps the quiet & nature pillar: water counts for a fifth there, and the other components point the wrong way. Greenery within three hundred metres does not reach a tenth, against a national median of more than half, and tree canopy is scarcer still. Noise, meanwhile, sits at about the national level — the 3.7 comes from concrete and water, not from din.

The 7.6 for wealth & income needs a caveat. Property values are well above the national middle and the share of high incomes is twice as large, but the social assistance rate here is a multiple of the median. Those two exist side by side in the same neighbourhood.

GP, school and restaurant are all within a kilometre; only the railway station is far off. For a district not yet a generation old, that is a complete set of daily errands.

no. 5,560 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 164 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Buiksloterham-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buiksloterham-Zuid comes out at 30 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

30.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

16.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 128 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

1.0 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

5.3 km

Restaurant

0.7 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

3.7 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

€ 610,000

Welfare recipients

45.1 per 1,000

High incomes

38%

Low incomes

28%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

38%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

11%

Built after 2000

99%

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

5,512 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

Trees nearby

Water share

45%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,795

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

0.7 km

Households with children

22%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

16%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Buiksloterham-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 55%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1516%
NL median 14%
15–257%
NL median 11%
25–4555%
NL median 22%
45–6518%
NL median 28%
65+5%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,512 — 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 Buiksloterham-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buiksloterham-Zuid comes out at 30 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 Buiksloterham-Zuid?

In Buiksloterham-Zuid the police recorded 128 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Buiksloterham-Zuid calculated?

Buiksloterham-Zuid scores 6.8 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 Buiksloterham-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.