neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Schinkelbuurt-Noord

2,405 residents · postal code 1075 · Part of Schinkelbuurt, Amsterdam

Top 26% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

With more than twenty-four thousand residents per square kilometre, Schinkelbuurt-Noord is exceptionally densely populated, and almost none of its homes are single-family houses. The 9.9 for amenities and the 3.7 for quiet & nature are two sides of that same fact: the restaurant is one hundred metres away, while greenery in the immediate area covers less than a third of the surface.

The offence rate is above the national middle, but violence is actually below it and so is burglary. What makes the figure is theft, almost twice as common as nationally. That is the profile of a busy city neighbourhood where things go missing, not of one where you would rather stay indoors at night.

Families stops at 5.4: the primary school is a kilometre away and barely one in seven households has children.

no. 3,300 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 93 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Schinkelbuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schinkelbuurt-Noord comes out at 30 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.

Total crime

30.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

17.0 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 129 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.4 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

1.2 km

Motorway ramp

1.6 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

€ 540,000

Welfare recipients

20.8 per 1,000

High incomes

35%

Low incomes

30%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

35%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

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

24,045 inw/km²

Noise level

59 dB

Green surroundings

29%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

8,311

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

1.0 km

Households with children

13%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Schinkelbuurt-Noord has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 49%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4549%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+10%
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
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
24,045 — 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 Schinkelbuurt-Noord a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Schinkelbuurt-Noord comes out at 30 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 Schinkelbuurt-Noord?

In Schinkelbuurt-Noord the police recorded 129 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (30 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 Schinkelbuurt-Noord calculated?

Schinkelbuurt-Noord scores 8.1 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 Schinkelbuurt-Noord 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.