neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest
2,170 residents · postal code 1066 · Part of Sloten/Nieuw-Sloten, Amsterdam
Well-off, but not spacious
Almost every home in Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest is owner-occupied and property value stands a good forty per cent above the national median. Together with a broad high-income bracket, a narrow low-income one and a social assistance rate at a little over half the national middle, that produces a 9.7 for wealth & income — all four components point the same way.
More striking is what is not close by in Amsterdam: the railway station is over four kilometres away. Amenities still comes out at 8.0 because the supermarket, the GP and a restaurant are within seven hundred metres and the station carries only a sixth of that pillar.
The 5.2 for quiet & nature belongs to over ten thousand residents to the square kilometre, a share of green space below the national median and traffic noise almost four decibels above it. The tree canopy is thicker than is usual nationally.
On safety, violence, theft and criminal damage sit below the national middle and only burglary above it.
- no. 331 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 5 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest scores
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Is Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 33 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
Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest has strikingly many residents aged 45 to 65: 35%, against 28% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4523%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
24% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
42% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
10,031 — 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 Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest?
In Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest calculated?
Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest scores 9.8 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 Nieuw-Sloten-Zuidwest 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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