district in Amstelveen
Elsrijk
Elsrijk has 4 neighbourhoods with 12,025 residents in total.
Elsrijk is a well-to-do pre-war district in northern Amstelveen, counted as four neighbourhoods with over 12,000 residents. Wealth & income (8.7) is highest here, and amenities (8.2) score strongly too. Safety trails at 6.8, and quiet & nature drops to 3.3, well below the rest. The overall comes to 6.8: one of Amstelveen's highest-rated districts, with wealth & income its most striking feature.
no. 2 of the 14 districts of Amstelveen
Short answer: Elsrijk scores 9.0 as a district of Amstelveen, no. 2 of the 14 districts of Amstelveen. Its strongest neighbourhood is Kruiskerkbuurt (9.6), the lowest-scoring Vredeveldbuurt (8.2). The district has 4 neighbourhoods with 12,025 residents in total.
Key figures for Elsrijk
- residents
- 12,025
- neighbourhoods
- 4
- km² of land
- 1.6
How Elsrijk scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 322 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
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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.
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The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
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Who lives here
Elsrijk has strikingly many children under 15: 20%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1520%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+17%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
36% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
7,413 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Elsrijk, weighted by population.
The best and lowest-scoring neighbourhoods of Elsrijk
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Neighbourhoods in Elsrijk
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