neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Mercatorpark

2,840 residents · postal code 1056 · Part of Van Galenbuurt, Amsterdam

Top 22% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

For Mercatorpark the wealth & income pillar is missing, which means the overall score of 8.4 rests on four pillars instead of five. Anyone comparing this neighbourhood with another is therefore not comparing quite the same thing. What is there is a pronounced profile: a 9.7 for amenities and a 9.1 for families, both built on distances of a few hundred metres to school, GP and supermarket.

The flip side is a 2.9 for quiet & nature, and with almost thirty thousand residents per square kilometre it could hardly be otherwise — this is one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. Within safety, a 5.8, property crime is the driver: it lies above the national median while burglary stays far below it. That is the profile of a place where many people come and go. Also striking is the age structure: there are virtually no over-65s, and virtually no children either, a combination you rarely see.

no. 2,871 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 76 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Wealth & income

no grade

Too few figures are available for this area to give a grade.

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Is Mercatorpark a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Mercatorpark comes out at 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

34.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

12.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 111 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

2.7 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.1 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

0.7 km

Motorway ramp

0.5 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.

Welfare recipients

31.7 per 1,000

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

29,486 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

38%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

7,720

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.5 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

0.4 km

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.6 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Mercatorpark has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 42%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4542%
NL median 22%
45–6534%
NL median 28%
65+2%
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
Not enough data
Not enough data
NL median 31%
Households with children
Not enough data
Not enough data
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
29,486 — 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 Mercatorpark a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Mercatorpark comes out at 34 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 Mercatorpark?

In Mercatorpark the police recorded 111 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (34 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 Mercatorpark calculated?

Mercatorpark scores 8.4 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 Mercatorpark 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.