neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Kazernebuurt

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

Bottom 33% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

The primary school is seven hundred metres away and still the families pillar in Kazernebuurt stalls at a 4.7. The explanation lies in the population rather than the distance: barely one in twenty residents is under fifteen, and more than a quarter are 65 or older. With a make-up like that, a nearby school can only half carry the score.

On amenities the neighbourhood almost hits the ceiling. Supermarket and restaurant are two hundred metres away, the GP five hundred, the station just over a kilometre. That is why the overall score still lands at a 5.0 despite a 3.0 for safety, driven mainly by property crime and violence.

The share of residents on social assistance here is four times above the national middle, while property value is well above it. This is a neighbourhood where expensive square metres and thin wallets sit side by side.

no. 8,763 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 303 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Kazernebuurt 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

51.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.1 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.2 per 1,000

Property crime

28.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 91 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

0.5 km

Train station

1.1 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.7 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

4.1 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

€ 544,000

Welfare recipients

32.3 per 1,000

High incomes

23%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

23%

Social housing

70%

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

17,019 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

29%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

14%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

8,315

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

0.7 km

Households with children

11%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.1 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Kazernebuurt has strikingly few children under 15: 5%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–155%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+28%
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
11% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
17,019 — 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 Kazernebuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Kazernebuurt comes out at 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Kazernebuurt 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 Kazernebuurt?

In Kazernebuurt the police recorded 91 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (52 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 Kazernebuurt calculated?

Kazernebuurt 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 Kazernebuurt 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.