neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Don Bosco

2,195 residents · postal code 1097 · Part of Frankendael, Amsterdam

Top 21% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Don Bosco has almost fourteen thousand residents per square kilometre and everything within walking distance: a 9.8 for amenities, among the highest in the country. Set against that is theft, at almost three times the national median. Violence sits just above it, burglary below — the centre of gravity is clearly in what gets taken, but it is not the only thing.

The wealth & income pillar is only partly what a 7.5 suggests. The property value is far above the Dutch middle and many households fall into the highest income group, but the social assistance rate is more than three times the national level and vacancy sits above it. This is not a uniformly wealthy neighbourhood but one where expensive homes and benefits exist side by side.

Greenery stays well below the middle, and that costs the quiet & nature pillar most.

no. 2,744 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 73 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Don Bosco a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

42.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

27.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 159 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.3 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.7 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.6 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 649,000

Welfare recipients

27.3 per 1,000

High incomes

33%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

44%

Social housing

28%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

15%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

13,987 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

34%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

7,452

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.8 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Don Bosco has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4535%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+15%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,987 — 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 Don Bosco a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Don Bosco comes out at 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Don Bosco 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 Don Bosco?

In Don Bosco the police recorded 159 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (43 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 Don Bosco calculated?

Don Bosco scores 8.4 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 Don Bosco 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.