neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Elzenhagen-Zuid

1,830 residents · postal code 1022 · Part of Elzenhagen, Amsterdam

Bottom 5% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Elzenhagen-Zuid consists entirely of rented homes, all built after 2000, and that does not explain the 2.8 for wealth & income. Something else does: property values sit well below the national middle, the share of high incomes is half the median, and the social assistance rate here is nearly twenty times the national level. Every component of that pillar points the same way.

The offence figure is three times the national middle, with property crime the largest item, but vandalism and violence are well above it too. Only burglary stays near the median — unsurprising in a neighbourhood with no owner-occupied homes. With more than eighteen hundred residents these are real differences, not noise in small numbers.

Amenities, meanwhile, are well arranged: supermarket and primary school are both five hundred metres away. That is also what keeps the families pillar at 6.9, since that pillar is nearly two thirds school and childcare distance — not the number of children, which is low here.

no. 12,543 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 433 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Elzenhagen-Zuid 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

72.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

41.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

9.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 220 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

0.5 km

GP practice

1.3 km

Train station

5.1 km

Restaurant

1.1 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

1.3 km

Library

1.9 km

Motorway ramp

1.8 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

€ 242,000

Welfare recipients

147.5 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

50%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

Social housing

87%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

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

6,093 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

44%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,597

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

10%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.3 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Elzenhagen-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 56%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–159%
NL median 14%
15–2520%
NL median 11%
25–4556%
NL median 22%
45–659%
NL median 28%
65+5%
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
1.3 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
77% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,093 — 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-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elzenhagen-Zuid comes out at 73 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Elzenhagen-Zuid 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 Elzenhagen-Zuid?

In Elzenhagen-Zuid the police recorded 220 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (73 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-Zuid calculated?

Elzenhagen-Zuid scores 2.8 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-Zuid 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.