neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Burgwallen-Oost
1,715 residents · postal code 1012 · Part of Burgwallen-Oude Zijde, Amsterdam
Everything close by, safety lags
On amenities Burgwallen-Oost reaches a 10.0 — the score cannot go higher. Supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within three hundred metres and the station a kilometre away. On the other side of the ledger is a 2.7 for safety, and there is no gentle reading of it: violence here is more than twelve times above the national middle and property crime seven times.
The population make-up belongs to an old city centre, not to a residential district. Almost seven in ten households consist of one person and the share of children under fifteen is a fraction of the national figure. The families pillar therefore stays at a 5.0 despite a primary school seven hundred metres away.
The wealth & income pillar is mixed, at a 5.8. Property value is above the Dutch middle, but more than four in ten households are in the lowest income group and the share of owner-occupied homes is small.
- no. 10,476 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 366 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Burgwallen-Oost scores
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Is Burgwallen-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Burgwallen-Oost comes out at 151 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Burgwallen-Oost 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, 696 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
Burgwallen-Oost has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 49%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–154%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4549%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
NL median 28%
- 65+11%
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
1.4 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
68% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
7% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
27,472 — 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 Burgwallen-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Burgwallen-Oost comes out at 151 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Burgwallen-Oost 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 Burgwallen-Oost?
In Burgwallen-Oost the police recorded 696 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (151 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 Burgwallen-Oost calculated?
Burgwallen-Oost scores 4.0 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 Burgwallen-Oost 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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