district in Amsterdam
IJburg-West
IJburg-West has 5 neighbourhoods with 16,080 residents in total.
IJburg-West is built on man-made islands in the IJmeer, five neighbourhoods and just over 16,000 residents on Steigereiland and around. Amenities and wealth and income both come to 7.3, safety to 6.4 and the overall to 6.5. Quiet and nature trails far behind at 3.0: this is densely built and busy ground. Families land on 9.7. A young, child-rich urban district on the water, still taking shape.
no. 9 of the 109 districts of Amsterdam
Short answer: IJburg-West scores 8.1 as a district of Amsterdam, no. 9 of the 109 districts of Amsterdam. Its strongest neighbourhood is Rieteilanden-West (9.7), the lowest-scoring Steigereiland-Zuid (6.1). The district has 5 neighbourhoods with 16,080 residents in total.
Key figures for IJburg-West
- residents
- 16,080
- neighbourhoods
- 5
- km² of land
- 1.1
How IJburg-West 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, 573 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
IJburg-West has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 7%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2516%
NL median 11%
- 25–4531%
NL median 22%
- 45–6529%
NL median 28%
- 65+7%
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
37% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
15,311 — 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 IJburg-West, weighted by population.
The best and lowest-scoring neighbourhoods of IJburg-West
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of IJburg-West.
Neighbourhoods in IJburg-West
Sorted by total grade