neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Ed Pelsterparkbuurt

5,740 residents · postal code 1087 · Part of IJburg-West, Amsterdam

Top 15% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

A neighbourhood rarely gets a 10 for families without children, and the Ed Pelsterparkbuurt has them: the primary school is a few hundred metres away and almost half of households have children. Hardly any older people live there; the whole neighbourhood is new build.

The total number of registered offences lies below the national median, and yet safety sticks at a 6.7. That is because violence does lie above it, and violence carries the most weight in that pillar; vandalism does the same on a smaller scale, while burglary and property crime stay far below the national level. What is further missing is greenery: within a radius of three hundred metres there is a fraction of what an average Dutch neighbourhood has, and that depresses the quiet score harder than the noise, which simply sits around the median.

no. 1,835 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 41 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Ed Pelsterparkbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ed Pelsterparkbuurt comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

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

Total crime

22.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.3 per 1,000

Property crime

8.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 187 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

6.3 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

7.5 km

Café

5.3 km

Library

0.4 km

Motorway ramp

2.2 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

€ 576,000

Welfare recipients

27.9 per 1,000

High incomes

33%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

45%

Social housing

35%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

17%

Built after 2000

100%

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

18,460 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

16%

Trees nearby

Water share

11%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,162

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.5 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

0.3 km

Households with children

48%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Ed Pelsterparkbuurt has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 6%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2516%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+6%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
48% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
18,460 — 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 Ed Pelsterparkbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ed Pelsterparkbuurt comes out at 22 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Ed Pelsterparkbuurt?

In Ed Pelsterparkbuurt the police recorded 187 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (22 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 Ed Pelsterparkbuurt calculated?

Ed Pelsterparkbuurt scores 8.9 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 Ed Pelsterparkbuurt 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.