neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Schellingwoude-Oost
620 residents · postal code 1023 · Part of Waterland, Amsterdam
Well-off, but not carefree
Schellingwoude-Oost has just over six hundred residents across a large area, and property values are two and a half times the national median. Every component of the wealth & income pillar points the same way: many high incomes, fewer low ones than average, no social assistance, little vacancy. Hence the 9.8.
The 3.4 for safety is the counterweight, and it comes mainly from burglary: more than three times the national middle, while violence stays just below it. With a population this size that means a handful of reported offences, so do not read a trend into it — though the pattern of expensive homes set well away from the city is real enough.
The neatest puzzle is in the quiet & nature pillar. This is rural land with fewer than a thousand residents per square kilometre, and yet noise is more than ten decibels above the national middle. What keeps the families pillar at 5.7 is the primary school, two kilometres away while almost half of households have children.
- no. 4,210 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 120 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Schellingwoude-Oost scores
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Is Schellingwoude-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schellingwoude-Oost comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schellingwoude-Oost is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most 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
Schellingwoude-Oost has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
935 — 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 Schellingwoude-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Schellingwoude-Oost comes out at 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Schellingwoude-Oost 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 Schellingwoude-Oost?
In Schellingwoude-Oost the police recorded 50 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (41 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 Schellingwoude-Oost calculated?
Schellingwoude-Oost scores 7.6 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 Schellingwoude-Oost 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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