neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Hercules Seghersbuurt

2,530 residents · postal code 1072 · Part of Oude Pijp, Amsterdam

Bottom 20% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

With more than thirty thousand residents per square kilometre, the Hercules Seghersbuurt is one of the most densely populated places in the country, and the quiet & nature pillar leaves nothing of that unsaid: a 2.6, with less than a fifth of the surroundings green and traffic noise far above the national median.

Against that stands a 9.5 for amenities. A restaurant is a hundred metres away, the supermarket three hundred, and that is exactly the trade-off such density makes possible.

On safety the composition is what stands out. Theft is three times the national figure and violence and vandalism also rise above the midpoint, but burglary is almost unknown. For families it stops at 4.5: one in ten households has children and the primary school is a kilometre away.

no. 10,591 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 371 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Hercules Seghersbuurt 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

53.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

6.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

27.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 241 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

2.5 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.6 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

2.5 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

€ 485,000

Welfare recipients

43.5 per 1,000

High incomes

25%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

21%

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

31,638 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

18%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

10,331

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.8 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

1.0 km

Households with children

10%

Childcare

0.6 km

Secondary school

0.6 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hercules Seghersbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 49%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4549%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+11%
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
67% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
31,638 — 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 Hercules Seghersbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hercules Seghersbuurt comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hercules Seghersbuurt 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 Hercules Seghersbuurt?

In Hercules Seghersbuurt the police recorded 241 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (53 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 Hercules Seghersbuurt calculated?

Hercules Seghersbuurt scores 3.9 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 Hercules Seghersbuurt 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.