neighbourhood in Amsterdam
Van der Helstpleinbuurt
3,860 residents · postal code 1073 · Part of Nieuwe Pijp, Amsterdam
Everything close by, little space
Van der Helstpleinbuurt gets a 9.9 for amenities and a 2.7 for quiet & nature, and those are two sides of one coin. Everything is within walking distance here because nearly thirty thousand people live per square kilometre; that same density means there is barely any greenery within three hundred metres and noise comes out well above the Dutch median.
The 7.6 for families misleads if you read it as 'plenty of children'. About one in eight households has children and six in ten consist of a single person. What the figure measures is that the primary school is four hundred metres away, and school and childcare distance make up nearly two thirds of that pillar.
The wealth & income pillar shows how varied neighbourhoods like this are. Property values sit sharply above the Dutch median and a third of households have a high income, but the share of low incomes sits below the national figure at the same time and social assistance far above it. The 6.7 sums that up without explaining it.
- no. 7,968 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 258 of 454 in Amsterdam
How Van der Helstpleinbuurt scores
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Is Van der Helstpleinbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Van der Helstpleinbuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Van der Helstpleinbuurt 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, 278 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
Van der Helstpleinbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 50%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–2510%
NL median 11%
- 25–4550%
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
62% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
13% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
28,330 — 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 Van der Helstpleinbuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Van der Helstpleinbuurt comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Van der Helstpleinbuurt 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 Van der Helstpleinbuurt?
In Van der Helstpleinbuurt the police recorded 278 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Van der Helstpleinbuurt calculated?
Van der Helstpleinbuurt scores 5.4 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 Van der Helstpleinbuurt 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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