neighbourhood in Amsterdam

G-buurt-West

3,705 residents · postal code 1103 · Part of Ganzenhoef e.o., Amsterdam

Bottom 25% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The crime rate in G-buurt-West sits well above the national median, and unlike in many busy urban neighbourhoods that is not only about things going missing. Violence occurs more than five times as often as is usual nationally, vandalism twice as often. Only burglary sits below the median. That is a different profile from a neighbourhood where mainly bikes and scooters disappear, and it explains why the safety pillar stalls at a 3.7 while everything is within walking distance.

Wealth & income lands on a 4.8 with contradictory signals. Property values sit just below the national median and vacancy is low, but social assistance runs four times the national rate and high incomes are scarcer. Anyone house-hunting here is not buying into a cheap neighbourhood, but into one where residents' incomes fall well short.

no. 9,833 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 340 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is G-buurt-West 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

60.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

12.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

21.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 378 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

0.3 km

Train station

2.3 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

4.4 km

Café

1.9 km

Library

1.7 km

Motorway ramp

2.1 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

€ 396,000

Welfare recipients

32.4 per 1,000

High incomes

15%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

36%

Social housing

28%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

35%

Built after 2000

29%

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

9,160 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

41%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

4,234

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.9 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

1.1 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

G-buurt-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 33%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4533%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+14%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
52% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,160 — 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-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, G-buurt-West comes out at 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: G-buurt-West 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-West?

In G-buurt-West the police recorded 378 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (61 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-West calculated?

G-buurt-West scores 4.4 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 G-buurt-West 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.