neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Meerwaldtbuurt
1,965 residents · postal code 1063 · Part of Slotermeer-Noordoost, Amsterdam
Good for children, with a safety question
In Meerwaldtbuurt almost one in six residents lives on benefits — almost fourteen times the national middle — and almost six in ten households are in the lowest income group. That makes the 3.3 for wealth & income not a snapshot but a consistent picture across every component of that pillar.
At the same time the neighbourhood reaches a 9.6 for families. The primary school is two hundred metres away and more than three in ten households have children; that is exactly what the pillar measures. The two scores do not contradict each other — they measure different things.
The safety pillar comes out at a 2.6, and unlike in many inner-city areas violence is the heaviest item here: it sits more than three times above the median. Burglary is almost five times above it. This is not the profile of disappearing bicycles.
- no. 10,718 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 375 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Meerwaldtbuurt scores
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Is Meerwaldtbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meerwaldtbuurt comes out at 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Meerwaldtbuurt is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 152 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
Meerwaldtbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 29%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,455 — 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 Meerwaldtbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Meerwaldtbuurt comes out at 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Meerwaldtbuurt 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 Meerwaldtbuurt?
In Meerwaldtbuurt the police recorded 152 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (51 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 Meerwaldtbuurt calculated?
Meerwaldtbuurt scores 3.9 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 Meerwaldtbuurt 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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