neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Oostenburg

3,710 residents · postal code 1018 · Part of Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken, Amsterdam

Bottom 31% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Six per cent of Oostenburg's residents are under fifteen and almost two-thirds of households are single-person. The primary school is eight hundred metres away, so the 4.2 for families comes not from distance but from who lives here.

The wealth & income pillar is favourable almost everywhere: high property values, more than a third of households in the top income group, a narrow bottom group and little vacancy. Social assistance is the exception and runs well above the national median. Net result: a 7.2.

The 3.2 for quiet & nature fits one of the most densely built parts of Amsterdam: there is hardly any greenery within reach, even though a fifth of the surface is water. Safety lags at 3.8, with violence and property crime above the national median.

no. 9,039 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 312 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Oostenburg a safe neighbourhood?

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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

39.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

23.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.1 per 1,000

In 2025, 241 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.8 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.4 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

1.7 km

Motorway ramp

3.9 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

€ 513,000

Welfare recipients

27.0 per 1,000

High incomes

35%

Low incomes

25%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

22%

Social housing

61%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

34%

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

18,366 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

21%

Trees nearby

Water share

20%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

6,515

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.1 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

0.8 km

Households with children

10%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oostenburg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 61%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–156%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4561%
NL median 22%
45–6515%
NL median 28%
65+9%
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
1.5 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
63% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
18,366 — 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 Oostenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oostenburg comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oostenburg 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 Oostenburg?

In Oostenburg the police recorded 241 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Oostenburg calculated?

Oostenburg scores 4.8 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 Oostenburg 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.