The population is growing faster than in Amsterdam. Registered crime per resident is lower than the average in the municipality of Amsterdam.
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In 2025, 39 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Mercatorpark, 55% lower than in Amsterdam (86). Since 2023 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 27%, against a fall of 3% in Amsterdam. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Mercatorpark registered 39 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, Mercatorpark registered 39 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 Mercatorpark is 'Theft and burglary': 14.4 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
In 2024, police in Mercatorpark registered 1 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
A daycare lies here at an average road distance of 400 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 900 m | – |
| GP practice | 600 m | – |
| Primary school | 900 m | – |
| Daycare | 400 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 3 |
| GP practices | – | 4 |
| Daycares | – | 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
Mercatorpark has 3,000 inhabitants (2026), or 31,094 per km² (6.3 times as high as in Amsterdam). Between 2023 and 2026 the population rose 20%, 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 grew 20% between 2023 and 2026, to 3,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 31,094 residents per km², this buurt is 6.3 times as densely populated as the municipality of Amsterdam.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 10.6 children were born per 1,000 residents; 7.0 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
42% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
80% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
77% of residents have origin outside Europe.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
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
20% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 11 percentage points less than in Amsterdam (31%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 30 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
20% 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 27% to 20% 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, 230 passenger cars and 35 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
7% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is assembly (33%).
Based on 15 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
31,094 residents per km²: 58 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
| John Franklinbuurt | 1,830 | €439,000 | 47 | 5 |
| Orteliusbuurt-Noord | 1,280 | €435,000 | 42 | 1 |
| Jan Maijenbuurt | 2,165 | €422,000 | 50 | 8 |