district in Amsterdam
Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken
Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken has 8 neighbourhoods with 15,525 residents in total.
The Oostelijke Eilanden owe their name to shipping, with Kattenburg, Wittenburg and Oostenburg as old shipyard islands, eight neighbourhoods and just over 15,000 residents. Amenities (8.9) and wealth and income (6.5) sit above the middle. Safety trails at 4.0 and quiet and nature at 3.3: nowhere here is still. The overall comes to 5.0. A historic, partly renewed district on the IJ.
no. 79 of the 109 districts of Amsterdam
Short answer: Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken scores 5.0 as a district of Amsterdam, no. 79 of the 109 districts of Amsterdam. Its strongest neighbourhood is Het Funen (7.3), the worst Marine-Etablissement (3.1). The district has 8 neighbourhoods with 15,525 residents in total.
Key figures for Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken
- residents
- 15,525
- neighbourhoods
- 8
- km² of land
- 1
How Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken 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, 1,079 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
Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 40%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–158%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4540%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
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
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
61% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
16% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
18,951 — 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 Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken
The same total grade, the same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken.
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Neighbourhoods in Oostelijke Eilanden/Kadijken
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