Living in Westpoort
District of Amsterdam · 28.96 km²
You'd need a car
Is Westpoort a good place to live? Not really: its typical street scores 32, 7th of 8 areas in Amsterdam, held back by needing a car. 31% of its streets are quiet, 21% on loud roads and 78% need a car.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 26 min 
Café or bar 14 min 
Pharmacy 30+ min 
School 30+ min 
Tram or bus stop 18 min What's here
34 cafés, bars and restaurants · 7 shops · 2 pharmacies · 6 schools · 17 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. (701 crimes in 2025, 449 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. Street lighting is mapped for only 22% of streets here.
Not available here yet: Reddit, City survey (Numbeo).
Best streets to live on in Westpoort
Haparandaweg (72), Rigakade (70), Zekeringstraat (69)