neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Robert Scottbuurt-West

2,145 residents · postal code 1055 · Part of De Kolenkit, Amsterdam

Bottom 15% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

A 9.9 for amenities places Robert Scottbuurt-West among the hundred and fifty most accessible neighbourhoods in the country: GP, supermarket and restaurant all a few hundred metres away. On the four other pillars the neighbourhood drops below the national middle.

The wealth & income pillar is the clearest of those, and not only because of property value. More than one in eight homes here is vacant, over three times the national share, and the social assistance rate is a multiple of the Dutch one. Only the share of households on a high income stays near the median.

On safety property crime is the largest item — more than double the national figure — but that is not the whole story: violence too sits at more than twice the median here, while burglary is exactly on it. Almost three quarters of households consist of one person.

no. 11,228 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 393 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Robert Scottbuurt-West 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

51.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

5.6 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.6 per 1,000

Property crime

19.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 181 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

0.4 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

2.9 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.4 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

0.8 km

Motorway ramp

0.6 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

€ 356,000

Welfare recipients

51.3 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

46%

Vacancy

13%

Owner-occupied

24%

Social housing

52%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

14%

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

15,159 inw/km²

Noise level

62 dB

Green surroundings

30%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

7,950

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.5 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

0.5 km

Households with children

13%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.7 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Robert Scottbuurt-West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 47%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4547%
NL median 22%
45–6516%
NL median 28%
65+13%
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
72% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,159 — 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 Robert Scottbuurt-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Robert Scottbuurt-West comes out at 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Robert Scottbuurt-West 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 Robert Scottbuurt-West?

In Robert Scottbuurt-West the police recorded 181 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (51 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 Robert Scottbuurt-West calculated?

Robert Scottbuurt-West scores 3.6 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 Robert Scottbuurt-West 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.