neighbourhood in Amsterdam
BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West
2,160 residents · postal code 1073 · Part of Zuid Pijp, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little space
Twenty-two thousand residents per square kilometre, not a single single-family home and fewer than one in six homes owner-occupied: BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West is about as densely built as the Netherlands gets. The 3.4 for quiet & nature follows from that, with a share of green space within three hundred metres at not even a third of the national middle — though traffic noise actually sits below it.
The 4.7 for wealth & income is the figure pointing two ways. Property value is above the national median and vacancy lands exactly on it, but almost half the households are in the lowest income bracket and the social assistance rate is more than eight times the middle. Expensive homes and stretched households side by side.
On safety, theft runs at almost one and a half times the national level and violence at nearly double; burglary is virtually absent. That violence figure makes the picture different from a neighbourhood where only bicycles go missing.
Amenities score 9.7: everything needed day to day is within five hundred metres.
- no. 7,989 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 259 of 454 in Amsterdam
How BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West scores
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Is BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West 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.
In 2025, 92 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
BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4533%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+21%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
60% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
22,097 — 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 BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West 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 BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West?
In BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West the police recorded 92 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 BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West calculated?
BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West scores 5.4 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 BurgemeesterTellegenbuurt-West 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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