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The population is shrinking, while it grows in Amsterdam. Homes cost less than the average in the municipality of Amsterdam, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Blauwe Zand is €484,000, 7% lower than in Amsterdam (€518,000). Between 2023 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 14%, against no real change in Amsterdam. 19% of the homes are owner-occupied, 12 percentage points less than in Amsterdam (31%).
The average WOZ value rose 14% between 2023 and 2025, to €484,000.
The WOZ value as struck on 1 January of the year before the KWB edition.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
Modelled ownership costs for a typical dwelling here: ~€215 per month (excluding mortgage and energy)
Typical home here, before mortgage and energy
Model estimates, not bills.
For this home, Amsterdam's OZB, sewage and waste levies rank 23rd of 334 gemeenten, cheapest first.
Water board, maintenance and insurance are estimated from national rates and the home's value and size, so they aren't compared.
Source: Municipal levies + CBS 2026
Average WOZ value: €484,000
Average WOZ value from the Netherlands down to this area, and its rank within its own group (e.g. buurten within the same wijk). Provincie is omitted: KWB publishes no province rows to average.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)
The largest category is social housing, at 79% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
77% of the dwelling stock is single-family homes.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
86% of dwellings were built before 1945, against 38% in the municipality of Amsterdam.
Based on 911 dwellings with a registered construction year in the BAG (verblijfsobjecten whose pand has no usable bouwjaar, such as 1005 or 9999, are excluded).
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
In 2025, 36 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Blauwe Zand, 58% lower than in Amsterdam (86). Since 2023 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 4%, against a fall of 3% in Amsterdam. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Blauwe Zand registered 36 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 86 in the municipality of Amsterdam.
Crime is counted where it happens and divided by the number of residents, so places with many visitors — city centres, nightlife, stations — score higher.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2025, Blauwe Zand registered 36 crimes per 1,000 residents, against 86 in the municipality of Amsterdam.
Registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED. A year without a matching population figure (KWB) is left out.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
The largest category in Blauwe Zand is 'Theft and burglary': 12.6 per 1,000 residents in 2025, against 47.9 in the municipality of Amsterdam.
Four categories are structurally withheld at buurt level (sex offences, child pornography, child prostitution, other integrity offences); the gap with the published total is shown under 'other'.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
Home burglary 2023-2025: 2.6 per 1,000 dwellings a year on average, against 3.4 in the municipality of Amsterdam.
Averaged over 3 years (2023-2025) to dampen year-to-year noise at low counts.
Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025
In 2024, police in Blauwe Zand registered 4 traffic accidents, of which 0 with injury and none fatal.
Registered accidents (BRON, Rijkswaterstaat); material-damage-only accidents have not been systematically registered since roughly 2010 and are not comparable between areas. This area shows only accidents with an exactly known location (roughly 80-85% of all registered accidents); the rest is known only at street, intersection or gemeente level. The comparison with the gemeente therefore also uses only the gemeente's exactly-located accidents, which is why that figure is lower than on the gemeente's own page.
Source: BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024
An estimated 63% of adults in Blauwe Zand rate their own health as good, 9 percentage points less than in Amsterdam. More adults are overweight (54% against 42%), more smoke (24% against 22%) and more feel lonely (55% against 54%), but fewer meet the physical activity guideline (49% against 58%).
An estimated 63% of adults rate their own health as good, against 72% in the municipality of Amsterdam (2024).
An RIVM model estimate (small-area estimation from the 2024 Health Monitor for Adults and Elderly), not a direct tabulation — even a buurt that was not itself surveyed gets an estimate. Figures cover adults aged 18 and over.
Source: RIVM/CBS Gezondheidsmonitor Volwassenen en Ouderen (kleine-gebieden-schatting) 2024
A primary school lies here at an average road distance of 500 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 1,100 m | – |
| GP practice | 800 m | – |
| Primary school | 500 m | – |
| Daycare | 500 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 0.2 |
| GP practices | – | 1.1 |
| Daycares | – | 2.4 |
Average road distance from every address in this buurt to the nearest amenity, and the average count within 1 km — a buurt average, not a distance from one address.
Source: CBS proximity statistics 2025
Blauwe Zand has 1,895 inhabitants (2026), or 11,254 per km² (2.3 times as high as in Amsterdam). Between 2023 and 2026 the population fell 1%, against a rise of 3% in Amsterdam. In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Amsterdam was 71%, 7 percentage points below the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) had the highest share there: 27% of the vote, against 13% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.
The population held steady between 2023 and 2026, at 1,895.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 11,254 residents per km², this buurt is 2.3 times as densely populated as the municipality of Amsterdam.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 13.1 children were born per 1,000 residents; 10.5 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
27% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
57% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
59% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
40% of residents have a higher professional (hbo) or university (wo) education.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2024
These figures are for the whole municipality of Amsterdam; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 71% of eligible voters in Amsterdam voted. The largest party was GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) with 27% of the valid votes.
Official election result (Kiesraad), top 8 parties by national vote count plus 'Other'; share of valid votes. A voter may vote at any polling station in their own gemeente; there is therefore no reliable buurt- or wijk-level result. This figure is the whole gemeente's own result.
Source: Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025
Blauwe Zand has an average of 0.7 cars per household, 40% higher than in Amsterdam (0.5). 18% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 13 percentage points less than in Amsterdam (31%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 60 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
18% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 31% in the municipality of Amsterdam (2025).
CBS splits passenger cars into 'petrol' and 'other fuel' only. That second category bundles diesel, LPG, electric (including hybrid), hydrogen, alcohol, LNG and CNG together — CBS publishes no separate electric-car count per buurt, wijk or gemeente, so this is not the same as an 'electric share'.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 14% to 18% between 2023 and 2025.
See the 'Passenger cars by fuel type' card for what 'other fuel' covers — this is not the share of electric cars.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
In 2025, 625 passenger cars and 75 motorcycles were registered here.
At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
98% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is retail (0.9%).
Based on 926 verblijfsobjecten in use. An object with several registered uses (e.g. a flat above a shop) is counted under each of them, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01
11,254 residents per km²: 21 times as densely populated as the Dutch average.
The 5 characteristics that differ most from the national average, ranked by log ratio (so a halving and a doubling count as equally different); the shown percentage is the ordinary difference against the Netherlands.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026