neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Molenwijk

2,995 residents · postal code 1035 · Part of Oostzanerwerf, Amsterdam

Bottom 4% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

Molenwijk is a neighbourhood with barely any owner-occupied housing: hardly one home in six is owner-occupied and there is not a single single-family home. You can see that in the wealth & income pillar, but property value is not the whole story there. The rate of social assistance is more than ten times the national level and the top income group is less than half the national share.

On safety, all four types of offence are above the national median, violence and vandalism first among them. That is a different pattern from a shopping area where things go missing; here it is broad.

The families score of 7.7 stands apart from all this and hangs on the primary school seven hundred metres away. What is not close by is the railway station, more than six kilometres off: by far the biggest distance on the list.

no. 12,609 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 437 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Molenwijk 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

44.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.7 per 1,000

Property crime

19.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 183 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

0.8 km

Train station

6.6 km

Restaurant

0.8 km

Hospital

4.0 km

Café

1.6 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 286,000

Welfare recipients

80.1 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

55%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

17%

Social housing

80%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

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

9,882 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

48%

Trees nearby

15%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,358

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.7 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

35%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.2 km

Residents under 15

18%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1518%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
9,882 — 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 Molenwijk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Molenwijk comes out at 45 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Molenwijk 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 Molenwijk?

In Molenwijk the police recorded 183 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (45 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 Molenwijk calculated?

Molenwijk scores 2.8 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 Molenwijk 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.