neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Oostoever Sloterplas
2,415 residents · postal code 1064 · Part of Slotervaart-Noord, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little space
Almost half the surface of Oostoever Sloterplas is water. That explains why quiet & nature still reaches 5.1 while the greenery around it stays far below the national median and ambient noise sits above it. Water counts as heavily in that pillar as greenery does.
The 8.0 for wealth & income rests on a property value well above the national middle and a large share of high incomes, though social assistance here is above the usual rate. The score is strong, then, but not without contradiction.
Families lags at 5.4, and that is not the school, which is nine hundred metres away. It is the population: more than a quarter of residents are 65 or older and fewer than three in ten households have children.
- no. 2,200 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 53 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Oostoever Sloterplas scores
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Is Oostoever Sloterplas a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostoever Sloterplas comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oostoever Sloterplas 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, 50 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
The age profile of Oostoever Sloterplas looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+26%
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
42% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,725 — 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 Oostoever Sloterplas a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oostoever Sloterplas comes out at 17 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Oostoever Sloterplas 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 Oostoever Sloterplas?
In Oostoever Sloterplas the police recorded 50 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (17 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 Oostoever Sloterplas calculated?
Oostoever Sloterplas scores 8.7 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 Oostoever Sloterplas 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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