neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Kadijken

2,845 residents · postal code 1018 · Part of Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken, Amsterdam

Bottom 34% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, except school and childcare

In Kadijken the two halves of the wealth & income pillar pull apart. The property value is almost one and a half times the Dutch middle, while the social assistance rate runs four times the national level. That 7.0 is therefore not a description of wealthy residents but of expensive homes with, among them, a group clearly doing less well; the average hides more here than it reveals.

The weakest figure is the 3.7 for families, a figure that holds up here. The primary school is just over a kilometre away, and on top of that only one in seven households has children while nearly two thirds live alone. This is a neighbourhood of single-person households in one of the most densely populated parts of the country. Amenities therefore reach a 9.1 without effort — restaurant, GP and supermarket are all within a few hundred metres — while the safety score of 4.0 rests mainly on property crime and vandalism above the median.

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no. 293 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Kadijken a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kadijken comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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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

29.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.1 per 1,000

Property crime

14.1 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.7 per 1,000

In 2025, 156 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

1.6 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

2.2 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.7 km

Motorway ramp

4.7 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

€ 615,000

Welfare recipients

31.6 per 1,000

High incomes

28%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

36%

Social housing

52%

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

16,745 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

25%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

23%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

6,656

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.3 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

14%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

1.8 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kadijken has strikingly few children under 15: 7%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–2511%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+26%
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
63% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
14% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,745 — 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 Kadijken a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kadijken comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Kadijken?

In Kadijken the police recorded 156 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Kadijken calculated?

Kadijken scores 5.0 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 Kadijken 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.