The population is growing slower than in Amsterdam. Homes cost about the same as the average in the municipality of Amsterdam, and registered crime per resident is lower.
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The average WOZ value in Walvisbuurt is €515,000, about the same as in Amsterdam (€518,000). Between 2023 and 2025 the average WOZ value rose 2%, against no real change in Amsterdam. 70% of the homes are owner-occupied, 39 percentage points more than in Amsterdam (31%).
The average WOZ value rose 2% between 2023 and 2025, to €515,000.
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: ~€264 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 21st 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
Walvisbuurt has the 3rd-highest WOZ value of the 6 buurten in Oostzanerwerf.
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)
Here: €515,000 average WOZ value.
| Value | Dwellings | Aged 65+ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walvisbuurt | 515,000 | 548 | – |
| Melkweg/Oostzanerwerf | 158,000 | 63 | – |
| Twiske-West | 568,000 | 981 | – |
| Oostzanerdijk | 620,000 | 141 | – |
| Circus/Kermisbuurt | 393,000 | 643 | – |
| Molenwijk | 286,000 | 1,416 | – |
Each circle is an area: position by average WOZ value, size by dwelling count. The 65-and-over share (pct_65_plus) travels on every point but is not yet drawn as a second axis.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB)
The largest category is owner-occupied, at 70% of dwellings.
CBS publishes this as a share of the dwelling stock, not a count.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
88% 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
46% of dwellings were built between 1975 and 1991, against 15% in the municipality of Amsterdam.
Based on 547 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, 29 crimes per 1,000 residents were registered in Walvisbuurt, 66% lower than in Amsterdam (86). Since 2023 the registered rate per 1,000 residents fell 25%, against a fall of 3% in Amsterdam. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.
In 2025, Walvisbuurt registered 29 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, Walvisbuurt registered 29 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 Walvisbuurt is 'Theft and burglary': 11.0 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: 4.3 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 Walvisbuurt registered 27 traffic accidents, of which 3 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 74% of adults in Walvisbuurt rate their own health as good, 2 percentage points more than in Amsterdam. More adults are overweight (52% against 42%), but fewer meet the physical activity guideline (48% against 58%), fewer report anxiety or depression (49% against 57%) and fewer feel lonely (48% against 54%).
An estimated 74% 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 600 m.
| Distance | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| Large supermarket | 900 m | – |
| GP practice | 900 m | – |
| Primary school | 600 m | – |
| Daycare | 600 m | – |
| Large supermarkets | – | 1 |
| GP practices | – | 0.5 |
| Daycares | – | 3.2 |
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
Walvisbuurt has 1,365 inhabitants (2026), or 5,636 per km² (14% higher than in Amsterdam). Between 2023 and 2026 the population stayed about level, 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 1,365.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
With 5,636 residents per km², this buurt is 14% more densely populated than the municipality of Amsterdam.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
In 2025, 7.3 children were born per 1,000 residents; 3.7 died per 1,000.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
28% of residents are between 25 and 45.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
53% of residents are never married.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
52% of residents have Dutch origin.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026
38% of residents have a havo, vwo or mbo2-4 level 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
Walvisbuurt has an average of 1.0 cars per household, 2.0 times as high as in Amsterdam (0.5). 25% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 6 percentage points less than in Amsterdam (31%).
Zakelijke dienstverlening is the largest sector, with 40 establishments.
Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025
25% 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 21% to 25% 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, 590 passenger cars and 80 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
99% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is retail (0.2%).
Based on 552 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
5,636 residents per km²: 10 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
| Oostzanerdijk | 335 | €620,000 | 50 |
| Twiske-West | 2,560 | €568,000 | 27 |
| Circus/Kermisbuurt | 1,320 | €393,000 | 31 |
| Molenwijk | 3,070 | €286,000 | 61 |
| Melkweg/Oostzanerwerf | 325 | €158,000 | 121 |
| Noorder IJplas | 135 | – | – |