neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Westerstaatsman

2,825 residents · postal code 1051 · Part of Staatsliedenbuurt, Amsterdam

Top 46% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Almost thirty thousand residents per square kilometre, and not a single single-family home: Westerstaatsman is one of the most densely inhabited patches of the Netherlands. That explains the 2.6 for quiet & nature, which puts it among the lowest in the country, and it equally explains the 9.7 for amenities — a restaurant at a hundred metres, GP and school at three hundred.

The wealth & income pillar of 5.5 hides two opposing movements. More households have a high income than is usual nationally, but the social assistance rate lies at almost seven times the median and vacancy above the Dutch middle. That figure therefore describes not an average neighbourhood but one with two ends. Within safety, a 5.8, violence is the heavy component pushing the pillar down; the total number of offences here is actually below the national median, which means the weighting and not the volume makes the score.

no. 5,923 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 178 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Westerstaatsman a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Westerstaatsman comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer 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

20.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

8.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 96 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

0.5 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

3.0 km

Restaurant

0.1 km

Hospital

2.7 km

Café

0.2 km

Library

0.4 km

Motorway ramp

2.0 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

€ 431,000

Welfare recipients

53.1 per 1,000

High incomes

32%

Low incomes

35%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

39%

Social housing

35%

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

28,728 inw/km²

Noise level

56 dB

Green surroundings

27%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

8,389

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.2 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

0.3 km

Households with children

15%

Childcare

0.2 km

Secondary school

0.8 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Westerstaatsman has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 50%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–259%
NL median 11%
25–4550%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+7%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
64% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
15% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
28,728 — 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 Westerstaatsman a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Westerstaatsman comes out at 20 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Westerstaatsman?

In Westerstaatsman the police recorded 96 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (20 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 Westerstaatsman calculated?

Westerstaatsman scores 6.6 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 Westerstaatsman 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.