neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Staalmanbuurt
3,840 residents · postal code 1066 · Part of Slotervaart-Zuid, Amsterdam
Good for children, with a safety question
In the Staalmanbuurt the primary school is three hundred metres away and a good third of households have children. Those two together produce a 9.8 for families, and it is one of the few neighbourhoods where both distance and population make-up carry that figure.
The wealth & income pillar splits apart. Property values sit well above the Dutch median and vacancy is minimal, but almost half of households have a low income and the number of social assistance claims per thousand residents is nearly seven times the national level. Expensive homes and heavy benefit dependency stand side by side here; the 5.4 is the arithmetic middle of two extremes, not a description of an average neighbourhood.
More than half the homes were built after the turn of the century. That explains property values better than incomes do. The 3.5 for safety comes from two directions at once: violence here runs almost twice above the national median and theft well above it.
- no. 5,703 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 169 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Staalmanbuurt scores
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Is Staalmanbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Staalmanbuurt comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Staalmanbuurt 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, 232 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
Staalmanbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 39%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1518%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4539%
NL median 22%
- 45–6520%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,575 — 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 Staalmanbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Staalmanbuurt comes out at 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Staalmanbuurt 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 Staalmanbuurt?
In Staalmanbuurt the police recorded 232 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (44 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 Staalmanbuurt calculated?
Staalmanbuurt scores 6.7 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 Staalmanbuurt 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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