neighbourhood in Haarlem
Oude Amsterdamsebuurt
2,730 residents · postal code 2032 · Part of Amsterdamsewijk, Haarlem
Everything close by, little space
Of more than thirteen thousand Dutch neighbourhoods, barely thirty score lower on quiet and nature than the Oude Amsterdamsebuurt. Greenery within three hundred metres does not exceed a fifth, the tree canopy is a fraction of the national level, open water is absent and noise runs well above the median, across more than fourteen thousand residents per square kilometre.
Against that stands the 9.7 for amenities, and that is the same characteristic seen from the other side: restaurant and supermarket are within three hundred metres.
The wealth pillar hangs exactly in the middle, and that is an average of opposites. Property value and income distribution follow the national picture almost exactly and vacancy is below it, but the social assistance rate works out at almost four times the national figure. Anyone going by the numbers here has to weigh that one component separately.
- no. 8,935 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 86 of 97 in Haarlem
How Oude Amsterdamsebuurt scores
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Is Oude Amsterdamsebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Amsterdamsebuurt comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oude Amsterdamsebuurt 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, 152 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
Oude Amsterdamsebuurt has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4534%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
53% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
14,112 — 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 Oude Amsterdamsebuurt a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Oude Amsterdamsebuurt comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Oude Amsterdamsebuurt 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 Oude Amsterdamsebuurt?
In Oude Amsterdamsebuurt the police recorded 152 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Oude Amsterdamsebuurt calculated?
Oude Amsterdamsebuurt scores 4.9 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 Oude Amsterdamsebuurt 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Haarlem
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haarlem.
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