neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Leliegracht e.o.
1,825 residents · postal code 1015 · Part of Grachtengordel-West, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little space
The primary school is eight hundred metres away, so the 4.7 for families in Leliegracht e.o. does not come from distance here. It comes from who lives here: the share of children under fifteen is a fraction of the national figure, and two in three households consist of one person. This is a neighbourhood where children are the exception and the school happens to be nearby.
The 3.4 for safety has one clear source. Property crime here is more than four times above the national middle, while violence is below it. Vandalism and burglary are also above the median, so saying only that possessions go missing does not quite cover it.
One figure you rarely see this high: a fifth of addresses stand empty, at a property value more than double the Dutch middle. That weighs on the wealth & income pillar, which is otherwise pulled up by property value and the broad highest income group.
- no. 6,713 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 209 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Leliegracht e.o. scores
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Is Leliegracht e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leliegracht e.o. comes out at 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Leliegracht e.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 285 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
Leliegracht e.o. has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 38%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–156%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4538%
NL median 22%
- 45–6523%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
65% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
13,417 — 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 Leliegracht e.o. a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Leliegracht e.o. comes out at 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Leliegracht e.o. 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 Leliegracht e.o.?
In Leliegracht e.o. the police recorded 285 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (56 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 Leliegracht e.o. calculated?
Leliegracht e.o. scores 6.1 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 Leliegracht e.o. 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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