district in Amsterdam
De Kolenkit
De Kolenkit has 4 neighbourhoods with 11,785 residents in total.
De Kolenkit lies in Amsterdam-West, in Bos en Lommer, and consists of four neighbourhoods with nearly 12,000 residents. Amenities reach a high 9.4, but quiet & nature drops to 3.0, the weakest point. Wealth & income (4.4) and safety (6.0) sit near or below the middle. The 6.1 overall describes a densely built district in transition.
no. 51 of the 109 districts of Amsterdam
Short answer: De Kolenkit scores 6.1 as a district of Amsterdam, no. 51 of the 109 districts of Amsterdam. Its strongest neighbourhood is Kolenkitbuurt-Zuid (8.2), the worst Robert Scottbuurt-West (3.6). The district has 4 neighbourhoods with 11,785 residents in total.
Key figures for De Kolenkit
- residents
- 11,785
- neighbourhoods
- 4
- km² of land
- 0.7
How De Kolenkit 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, 555 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.
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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.
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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.
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
De Kolenkit has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 42%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1516%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4542%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
57% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
24% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
16,441 — 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 De Kolenkit, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of De Kolenkit
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of De Kolenkit.
Lowest grades
Neighbourhoods in De Kolenkit
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