neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Weesperbuurt

3,195 residents · postal code 1018 · Part of Weesperbuurt/Plantage, Amsterdam

Bottom 47% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

In Weesperbuurt things go missing rather than safety on the street. Property crime here runs at four times the national middle and on its own accounts for almost the whole crime total, while violence stays below it. That is the profile of a busy stretch of inner city with many people passing through, not of an area where you would rather stay indoors at night. Even so the safety pillar lands on a 3.9, because the total counts in the model as well.

The 6.8 for wealth & income averages out extremes. Property value is well above the national middle and high incomes are amply represented, but vacancy is nearly four times the median and the rate of social assistance is far above it too.

And the families pillar: the primary school is five hundred metres away, so distance is not the cause. The share of children is simply small here, in a neighbourhood where two in three households consist of one person.

no. 7,014 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 219 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Weesperbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

52.8 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

2.1 per 1,000

Property crime

37.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 329 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

2.1 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.8 km

Motorway ramp

4.1 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

€ 610,000

Welfare recipients

21.9 per 1,000

High incomes

30%

Low incomes

37%

Vacancy

15%

Owner-occupied

32%

Social housing

28%

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

15,066 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

23%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

25%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

8,141

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.4 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

0.5 km

Households with children

10%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Weesperbuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 37%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–157%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4537%
NL median 22%
45–6520%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
68% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,066 — 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 Weesperbuurt a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Weesperbuurt comes out at 53 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Weesperbuurt 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 Weesperbuurt?

In Weesperbuurt the police recorded 329 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (53 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 Weesperbuurt calculated?

Weesperbuurt scores 6.0 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 Weesperbuurt 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.