neighbourhood in Maastricht

Amby

6,540 residents · postal code 6225 · Part of Buitenwijk Oost, Maastricht

Top 26% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, except school and childcare

Amby sinks away in two places: families comes to a 5.5, wealth & income to a 5.8. Those figures have a very different background.

The low family figure is not down to the primary school, because that is close by. It sits in the share of households with children and in the share of young residents, both below the national one, while more than a quarter of the residents have passed sixty-five. The distances to childcare and secondary education are not in the table below, but they do count in the same pillar.

With wealth & income something unusual happens: not a single component deviates noticeably. Property value, both income groups, social assistance and vacancy all lie around the national middle. So a 5.8 is not a weakness here but the average itself.

From the crime figures only burglary stands out, registered in Amby three times as often as nationally while all the other types lie below it.

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Is Amby a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Amby comes out at 21 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

21.1 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.8 per 1,000

Property crime

5.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 173 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

0.7 km

GP practice

0.6 km

Train station

3.1 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

1.6 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

2.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.1 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

€ 411,000

Welfare recipients

9.2 per 1,000

High incomes

23%

Low incomes

38%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

69%

Social housing

23%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

80%

Built after 2000

13%

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

1,436 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

61%

Trees nearby

13%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

1,021

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.6 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

0.8 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.7 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

13%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Amby has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1513%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4517%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+27%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
40% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,436 — far less 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 Amby a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Amby comes out at 21 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 Amby?

In Amby the police recorded 173 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (21 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 Amby calculated?

Amby scores 8.1 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 Amby 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.