Jordaan

The Jordaan is known as Amsterdam's old working-class quarter inside the canal belt, eleven neighbourhoods and nearly 20,000 residents from the Elandsgracht to the Anjeliersbuurt. Amenities reach 9.8, all but the maximum, with cafés, shops and museums on every corner. Safety is the weakest at 2.9, though the press of tourists drags that figure down. Social life scores 7.3. A sought-after, partly gentrified quarter of narrow streets and canal houses where nature (3.3) is scarce.