neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Gerard Doubuurt

2,055 residents · postal code 1073 · Part of Oude Pijp, Amsterdam

Bottom 20% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

In the Gerard Doubuurt more than seventy per cent of all reported offences are property crimes, against a national picture in which that share is much smaller. That is the profile of a busy piece of city where things go missing. Even so, the 2.7 for safety does not come from that alone: violence too is recorded here more often than is usual nationally, and that component carries the most weight in this pillar.

The 5.9 for wealth & income is more striking than it looks. Property value is far above the national median and more households have a high income than average — but social assistance runs many times above the national median and vacancy is more than double it. This is not an unambiguously well-off neighbourhood but one where the extremes sit close together, with over twenty thousand people to every square kilometre.

no. 10,504 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 367 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Gerard Doubuurt 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

95.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

67.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 372 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

0.2 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

2.8 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.2 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

2.9 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

€ 541,000

Welfare recipients

43.8 per 1,000

High incomes

28%

Low incomes

39%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

26%

Social housing

36%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

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

20,761 inw/km²

Noise level

60 dB

Green surroundings

23%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

10,518

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.9 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

0.9 km

Households with children

13%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Gerard Doubuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 46%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4546%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+12%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
64% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
20,761 — 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 Gerard Doubuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Gerard Doubuurt comes out at 95 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Gerard Doubuurt 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 Gerard Doubuurt?

In Gerard Doubuurt the police recorded 372 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (95 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 Gerard Doubuurt calculated?

Gerard Doubuurt scores 4.0 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 Gerard Doubuurt 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.