neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Dichtersbuurt
1,050 residents · postal code 1064 · Part of Slotermeer-Zuidoost, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little to spend
Dichtersbuurt scores an 8.5 for families while barely one in five households has children. The explanation stands three hundred metres away: the primary school, the component that determines almost a third of that pillar. The supermarket is that close too, but it counts in a different pillar.
The wealth & income pillar is the weak point at a 3.0, and that is not a matter of one outlier. Property value is far below the Dutch middle, the highest income group is a fraction of what is normal nationally, more than half of households are in the lowest group and the share of residents on social assistance is thirteen times above the median.
Safety comes out at a 4.0, with violence and property crime above the national middle and vandalism well below it. The number of reported offences as a whole is one and a half times above the median.
- no. 8,530 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 281 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Dichtersbuurt scores
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Is Dichtersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dichtersbuurt comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Dichtersbuurt 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, 68 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
Dichtersbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
65% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,485 — 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 Dichtersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dichtersbuurt comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Dichtersbuurt 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 Dichtersbuurt?
In Dichtersbuurt the police recorded 68 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Dichtersbuurt calculated?
Dichtersbuurt scores 5.1 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 Dichtersbuurt 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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