neighbourhood in Amsterdam
G-buurt-Noord
1,710 residents · postal code 1103 · Part of Ganzenhoef e.o., Amsterdam
Everything close by, little to spend
Almost twenty-three thousand residents per square kilometre makes G-buurt-Noord one of the most densely populated places in the Netherlands, and yet the quiet & nature pillar reaches 5.0. That is possible because density is only a fifth of the pillar: there is more water here than is usual nationally, tree canopy is one and a half times the middle, and greenery within three hundred metres sits just below it.
What holds the safety pillar down is not the total but the type. Violence is at almost three times the national median and vandalism at more than twice, while burglary stays below — understandable in a neighbourhood with no owner-occupied homes. Violence is the heaviest component of that pillar, and that is where the 3.4 comes from.
The wealth side is the sharpest of all: three percent of households have a high income against nineteen nationally, and the social assistance rate is a multiple of the middle. That every daily amenity lies within four hundred metres changes little about it.
- no. 11,406 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 397 of 454 in Amsterdam
How G-buurt-Noord scores
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Is G-buurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, G-buurt-Noord comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: G-buurt-Noord 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, 97 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
G-buurt-Noord has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 10%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6532%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
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
25% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
22,967 — 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 G-buurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, G-buurt-Noord comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: G-buurt-Noord 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 G-buurt-Noord?
In G-buurt-Noord the police recorded 97 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 G-buurt-Noord calculated?
G-buurt-Noord scores 3.5 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 G-buurt-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.
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