neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Wittenburg

2,625 residents · postal code 1018 · Part of Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken, Amsterdam

Bottom 40% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

A third of the surface of Wittenburg is water and still the quiet pillar comes out at 3.4: with more than twenty-one thousand residents per square kilometre, little greenery and a noise level above the national median, that water does not offset the rest.

The 5.5 for wealth & income is the average of extremes. Property values are above the national median and the top income group is wider than nationally, but so is the bottom group, and the social assistance rate is more than five times that of the average neighbourhood. That is not a middle position but a neighbourhood with two sides.

The families pillar reaches 6.8 while only one in five households has children; the primary school four hundred metres away keeps that score up.

no. 7,883 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 253 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Wittenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Wittenburg comes out at 27 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch 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

26.6 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.5 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

11.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.2 per 1,000

In 2025, 106 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

1.0 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.5 km

Café

0.6 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

4.7 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

€ 485,000

Welfare recipients

41.9 per 1,000

High incomes

22%

Low incomes

40%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

32%

Social housing

60%

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

21,128 inw/km²

Noise level

55 dB

Green surroundings

18%

Trees nearby

Water share

33%

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

5,498

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 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

19%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.9 km

Residents under 15

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Wittenburg has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 36%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–158%
NL median 14%
15–258%
NL median 11%
25–4536%
NL median 22%
45–6531%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
59% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
21,128 — 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 Wittenburg a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Wittenburg comes out at 27 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 Wittenburg?

In Wittenburg the police recorded 106 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (27 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 Wittenburg calculated?

Wittenburg scores 5.5 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 Wittenburg 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.