Living in Nieuw-West
District of Amsterdam · 38 km²
Open skies and leafy
Is Nieuw-West a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 78, 2nd of 8 areas in Amsterdam. 46% of its streets are leafy and 18% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 5 min 
Café or bar 4 min 
Pharmacy 8 min 
School 4 min 
Tram or bus stop 3 min What's here
310 cafés, bars and restaurants · 151 shops · 23 pharmacies · 121 schools · 220 stops
The six parts
Also scored
Not part of the score above.
Safety
An estimate from 4 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. (11,345 crimes in 2025, 69 per 1,000 residents (city 87).)
From Hoodmaps, a crowd map where anyone tags areas. Tags are often blunt or joking and nobody checks them. Can be unreliable. (on Hoodmaps' crime list; 0 votes on danger tags, 0 on safe tags.) Hoodmaps: hoodmaps.com/amsterdam-neighborhood-map
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 Nieuw-West
Burgemeester van Tienhovengracht (91), Jan C. de Voshof (91), Bakhuizen van den Brinkhof (90)