neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Laan van Spartaan
2,775 residents · postal code 1061 · Part of De Kolenkit, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little space
With more than seventeen thousand residents per square kilometre, Laan van Spartaan is among the most densely built places in the country, and the quiet & nature pillar settles that harshly: a 3.2. On top of that, noise sits ten decibels above the Dutch median and the greenery nearby well below the national middle.
The 4.5 for families is striking in a neighbourhood where most amenities are around the corner. The primary school here is more than a kilometre away, and school distance is by far the heaviest component of that pillar; where childcare and secondary schools lie is not known. Meanwhile more than sixty per cent of households are single-person.
The crime picture is that of a city neighbourhood: theft sits well above the national middle and violence too, while burglary is practically zero. That wealth & income comes out at a 5.8 is thanks to incomes — high incomes are over-represented here — while the social assistance rate sits well above the median. This neighbourhood is young, full and mixed all at once.
- no. 8,732 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 302 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Laan van Spartaan scores
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Is Laan van Spartaan a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Laan van Spartaan comes out at 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 116 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Laan van Spartaan has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 43%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2521%
NL median 11%
- 25–4543%
NL median 22%
- 45–6514%
NL median 28%
- 65+6%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
20% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
17,363 — 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 Laan van Spartaan a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Laan van Spartaan 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 Laan van Spartaan?
In Laan van Spartaan the police recorded 116 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 Laan van Spartaan calculated?
Laan van Spartaan 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 Laan van Spartaan 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.
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