neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Havenkwartier IJburg

2,155 residents · postal code 1087 · Part of IJburg-Zuid, Amsterdam

Top 38% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, and little room

Everything in Havenkwartier IJburg was built after the year 2000, and the quiet & nature pillar shows what that means. Greenery within three hundred metres covers less than a third of the national share and tree canopy is all but absent; trees need time. Together with a density of almost nineteen thousand residents per square kilometre that produces a 3.2.

The wealth & income pillar is only partly strong. Property value sits well above the median and so does the share of high incomes, but the social assistance rate is almost five times the national one. Anyone looking only at house prices here misses half the story.

The station is more than six kilometres away. Even so the amenities pillar reaches 7.9, because supermarket, GP and restaurant are all three within half a kilometre and those daily distances count for more.

no. 4,926 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 142 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Havenkwartier IJburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Havenkwartier IJburg comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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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

25.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

11.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 89 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

6.4 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

7.9 km

Café

5.9 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

2.7 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

€ 481,000

Welfare recipients

37.1 per 1,000

High incomes

29%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

23%

Social housing

33%

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

18,818 inw/km²

Noise level

52 dB

Green surroundings

16%

Trees nearby

Water share

14%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,176

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 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

0.3 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Havenkwartier IJburg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 42%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4542%
NL median 22%
45–6521%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
18,818 — 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 Havenkwartier IJburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Havenkwartier IJburg comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Havenkwartier IJburg?

In Havenkwartier IJburg the police recorded 89 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Havenkwartier IJburg calculated?

Havenkwartier IJburg scores 7.2 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 Havenkwartier IJburg 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.