Gather round, folks! These are officially the best and worst neighbourhoods in Amsterdam

These neighbourhoods in Amsterdam have been identified as ones you should live in and which to stray away from.

Using a scoring system, analysts at Rentola ranked Amsterdam’s neighbourhoods from 1 to 472 based on several categories.

The judges have spoken

The neighbourhoods were judged on a list of five things:

They made their final decision by sorting through the yearly statistics published by the Central Bureau of Statistics.

Drum roll, please

The top 10 neighbourhoods were:

  1. Diepenbrockbuurt
  2. Cornelis Schuytbuurt
  3. Willemsparkbuurt Noord
  4. Valeriusbuurt Oost
  5. Banpleinbuurt
  6. Beethovenbuurt
  7. Willemspark
  8. Apollobuurt
  9. Concertgebouwbuurt
  10. Minervabuurt Noord

These neighbourhoods were ranked highly for their closeness to cultural museums, the city centre, and amount of bars and restaurants in their vicinity.

Gefelliceteerd if you live in any of these 10 gorgeous spots. 😍

READ MORE | Where to live in Amsterdam: the definitive neighbourhood guide for 2023

Where scored worst?

We would love to go through them all, but we’d be here all day!

Though we will tell you the three worst according to Rentola.

  1. Hoptille
  2. Amsterdamse Poort
  3. Parooldriehoek

These neighbourhoods are far from the flurry of city life, and have higher crime rates and lower housing demand. 

What is your favourite neighbourhood in Amsterdam? Tell us in the comments below!

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Eva Gabriella
Eva Gabriella
After calling Malaysia her home for 19 years, Eva moved to Amsterdam to study literary and cultural analysis. Well, that was the academic theory — in reality it was more like “cultural shock.” Eva’s mastery of life in the Netherlands involved initiation into the richness of nocturnal hangouts, canals, cuisine, and upright and forthright cyclists (who she now rings her bell back at.) When she is not speeding her way through books, she is winding and weaving down endless straatjes, often finding herself, not so quite by chance, in a gezellig music bar!

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