neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Riekerpolder
655 residents · postal code 1066 · Part of Sloten/Nieuw-Sloten, Amsterdam
Everything close by, except school and childcare
Riekerpolder is an outlier on income: four in ten households are in the highest income group and only fourteen per cent in the lowest, against thirty-eight per cent nationally. Social assistance does not appear in the figures. Only property value sits just below the Dutch middle, and because that is the heaviest component the pillar stays at a 7.8 rather than higher.
The families pillar is the weak point at a 3.2, and distance largely explains it: the primary school is a kilometre and a half away. On top of that, barely one in eight households has children.
The supermarket is a hundred metres away, the GP just over a kilometre — that difference is why amenities stay at a 7.8 rather than higher. The noise level is thirteen decibels above the median and keeps the quiet & nature pillar at a 6.7 despite the low population density.
- no. 5,348 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 156 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Riekerpolder scores
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Is Riekerpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Riekerpolder comes out at 28 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 65 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
Riekerpolder has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 78%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–255%
NL median 11%
- 25–4578%
NL median 22%
- 45–657%
NL median 28%
- 65+1%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
58% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
12% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,071 — far less 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 Riekerpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Riekerpolder comes out at 28 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 Riekerpolder?
In Riekerpolder the police recorded 65 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (28 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 Riekerpolder calculated?
Riekerpolder scores 6.9 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 Riekerpolder 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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