neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Da Costabuurt-Noord
4,710 residents · postal code 1053 · Part of Da Costabuurt, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little space
With more than twenty-one thousand residents per square kilometre, Da Costabuurt-Noord is one of the most densely built places in the country, and that density explains two figures at once. The 9.9 for amenities comes from it: restaurant and supermarket are within two hundred metres. So does the 3.3 for quiet & nature: not even a fifth of the surroundings within three hundred metres is green.
The safety figure calls for precision. Theft runs at more than three times the national median and burglary at more than three times as well, but violence is exactly at the national median — not below it, yet strikingly ordinary for a place otherwise so far out of step. What disappears here is possessions.
The 7.4 for wealth & income rests on the property value, far above the median, and on a wide top income group. Social assistance pushes back, well above the national median.
- no. 4,903 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 141 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Da Costabuurt-Noord scores
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Is Da Costabuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Da Costabuurt-Noord comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Da Costabuurt-Noord 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, 475 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
Da Costabuurt-Noord has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 46%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4546%
NL median 22%
- 45–6521%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
57% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
21,678 — 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 Da Costabuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Da Costabuurt-Noord comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Da Costabuurt-Noord 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 Da Costabuurt-Noord?
In Da Costabuurt-Noord the police recorded 475 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (53 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 Da Costabuurt-Noord calculated?
Da Costabuurt-Noord scores 7.2 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 Da Costabuurt-Noord 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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