neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Sportheldenbuurt

4,585 residents · postal code 1095 · Part of Zeeburgereiland/Bovendiep, Amsterdam

Bottom 43% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Of the more than thirteen thousand neighbourhoods with a quiet & nature score, Sportheldenbuurt sits almost at the bottom. A 2.5 here is not a nuance but a fact: hardly any trees, little greenery within three hundred metres, no water, and a very high population density.

Every home was built after 2000, and that shows in the population: almost no residents over 65, but plenty of children. The wealth & income pillar reaches 7.0 on a high property value and a large share of top incomes — yet the social assistance rate is far above the national level. The well-off and the hard-up live in the same new-build here.

What the neighbourhood gets in return is proximity: school, supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within a kilometre. The railway station is not, and that pushes the amenities score down to 7.9 where it would otherwise have been higher.

no. 7,547 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 237 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Sportheldenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Sportheldenbuurt comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

26.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

11.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.7 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

0.5 km

Train station

3.8 km

Restaurant

0.8 km

Hospital

4.9 km

Café

2.8 km

Library

3.0 km

Motorway ramp

0.9 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

€ 508,000

Welfare recipients

28.4 per 1,000

High incomes

36%

Low incomes

31%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

27%

Social housing

22%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

100%

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

15,759 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

17%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,385

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.4 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

0.4 km

Households with children

24%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

2.7 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

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

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4549%
NL median 22%
45–6516%
NL median 28%
65+5%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,759 — 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 Sportheldenbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Sportheldenbuurt comes out at 26 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Sportheldenbuurt?

In Sportheldenbuurt the police recorded 181 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (26 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 Sportheldenbuurt calculated?

Sportheldenbuurt scores 5.7 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 Sportheldenbuurt 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.