Living in Centrum
District of Amsterdam · 8.04 km²
Tourist crowds
Is Centrum a good place to live? Not really: its typical street scores 19, 8th of 8 areas in Amsterdam, held back by tourist crowds. 52% of its streets are very touristy and 23% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 2 min 
Café or bar 1 min 
Pharmacy 4 min 
School 3 min 
Tram or bus stop 3 min What's here
1,813 cafés, bars and restaurants · 303 shops · 30 pharmacies · 71 schools · 97 stops
The six parts
Also scored
Not part of the score above.
Safety
An estimate from 3 sources. Each note below says where it comes from and how far to trust it.
Our estimate from traffic speed, crossings, street lighting and how many places are open nearby. It is not about crime. (median of the district's streets.)
Crimes recorded by the police per resident, compared with the city average. Busy centres look worse because visitors aren't counted as residents, and not every crime gets reported. (19,557 crimes in 2025, 213 per 1,000 residents (city 87).)
Police-recorded crime for the whole region, compared with the European median. Says nothing about this district in particular. (Groot-Amsterdam (NUTS 2021): 3,459 assaults, robberies, burglaries and thefts per 100,000 people in 2023, 2.6× the European regional median.)
Not part of the score above, and it doesn't change the map colours. Some sources can be unreliable.
Not available here yet: Reddit, City survey (Numbeo).
Best streets to live on in Centrum
Louise Wentstraat (74), Ir. Jakoba Mulderplein (72), Marie Altelaarplein (72)