neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Elzenhagen-Noord

3,600 residents · postal code 1022 · Part of Elzenhagen, Amsterdam

Top 19% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Elzenhagen-Noord is young in a way the figures show at once: more than three quarters of the homes were built after 2000, one in five residents is under fifteen, and the share of over-65s is less than half the national one. That helps explain the 9.4 for families, alongside a primary school five hundred metres away.

The 7.6 for wealth & income is solid by Amsterdam standards and unambiguous too: high property value, little vacancy, many higher incomes and a social assistance rate only slightly above the Dutch middle.

The pinch is the surroundings. Traffic noise is well above the national median here, pushing quiet & nature down to 5.2. The 5.8 for amenities disappoints as well: the station is almost six kilometres away.

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no. 59 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Elzenhagen-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elzenhagen-Noord comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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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

26.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

9.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 140 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

1.0 km

GP practice

1.4 km

Train station

5.7 km

Restaurant

1.3 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

1.5 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 509,000

Welfare recipients

11.1 per 1,000

High incomes

32%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

40%

Social housing

40%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

46%

Built after 2000

77%

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

7,752 inw/km²

Noise level

60 dB

Green surroundings

47%

Trees nearby

15%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,127

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.6 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

0.5 km

Households with children

38%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

22%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Elzenhagen-Noord has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 7%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1522%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+7%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
45% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,752 — 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 Elzenhagen-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elzenhagen-Noord comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 7.2. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 27 records per 1,000, 1.8 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Elzenhagen-Noord?

In Elzenhagen-Noord the police recorded 140 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Elzenhagen-Noord calculated?

Elzenhagen-Noord scores 8.6 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 Elzenhagen-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.