neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Medisch Centrum Slotervaart

885 residents · postal code 1066 · Part of Slotervaart-Zuid, Amsterdam

Bottom 8% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Ninety-four per cent of households in Medisch Centrum Slotervaart consist of one person and three quarters fall in the lowest income group. The highest income group is practically absent. With that make-up a 3.1 for wealth & income is no surprise, and a vacancy rate of almost a fifth of addresses weighs the score down further.

The safety pillar also comes out at a 3.1, with violence twice above the national middle and vandalism almost twice. Property crime is well above it, burglary barely.

The families pillar stays at a 5.2, and here the distance is not to blame: the primary school is seven hundred metres away. It lies in the population, with children in barely one in twenty-five households. The area is well connected, though — restaurant and GP are around the corner, the supermarket a kilometre away.

no. 12,086 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 417 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Medisch Centrum Slotervaart 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

39.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.7 per 1,000

Property crime

19.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 67 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

1.0 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

2.9 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

1.0 km

Café

1.2 km

Library

2.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 390,000

Welfare recipients

67.8 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

75%

Vacancy

18%

Owner-occupied

Social housing

100%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

38%

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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

3,053 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,625

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.8 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

0.7 km

Households with children

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

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Who lives here

Medisch Centrum Slotervaart has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 43%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–155%
NL median 14%
15–2543%
NL median 11%
25–4539%
NL median 22%
45–657%
NL median 28%
65+7%
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
1.1 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
94% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
4% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,053 — 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 Medisch Centrum Slotervaart a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Medisch Centrum Slotervaart comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Medisch Centrum Slotervaart 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 Medisch Centrum Slotervaart?

In Medisch Centrum Slotervaart the police recorded 67 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Medisch Centrum Slotervaart calculated?

Medisch Centrum Slotervaart scores 3.1 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 Medisch Centrum Slotervaart 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.