neighbourhood in Amsterdam
De Kameleon e.o.
2,360 residents · postal code 1104 · Part of Bijlmermuseum, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little to spend
Violence in De Kameleon e.o. is at almost six times the national value and property crime more than three times. That makes the safety picture here different from most busy city neighbourhoods, where it stops at possessions. Burglary, by contrast, is practically zero, which fits a neighbourhood where not a single home is owner-occupied and almost everything is stacked.
The wealth & income pillar drops to 2.6 and that holds on every component: seven percent of households in the highest income group, more than half in the lowest, a social assistance rate almost ten times the national middle and a property value a good half of the median.
Set against that is a 9.6 for amenities: supermarket, GP and restaurant are all three hundred metres away. What is missing here is not proximity but space — almost fifteen thousand residents per square kilometre and sixty decibels Lden.
- no. 11,795 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 414 of 454 in Amsterdam
How De Kameleon e.o. scores
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Is De Kameleon e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Kameleon e.o. comes out at 69 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Kameleon e.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 265 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
De Kameleon e.o. has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 19%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2519%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
14,708 — 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 De Kameleon e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, De Kameleon e.o. comes out at 69 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: De Kameleon e.o. 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 De Kameleon e.o.?
In De Kameleon e.o. the police recorded 265 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (69 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 De Kameleon e.o. calculated?
De Kameleon e.o. scores 3.2 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 De Kameleon e.o. 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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