From epidemiologic research it is known that socially desintegrated parts of town have a higher admission-rate in psychiatric hospitals than the better parts of town. In this study this relation in Amsterdam is investigated. Of the seventeen districts of Amsterdam twenty-four demographic variables have been determined. These variables are arranged into nine clusters: social-economic disadvantage, income, ethnic integration, seniority, family composition, number of people living in one residence, quality of the neighbourhood, quality of the residence and health services near-by. Except for the latter these clusters appeared to be consistent internally. Next, the psychiatric admission-rates in the Amsterdam districts in 1992 have been determined for the age-group twenty years and older. Of the clusters seven correlated significantly with the admission-rates. From multiple linear regression-analysis a model submerged consisting of the clusters social-economic disadvantage, family constitution and ethnic integration. This model explains 63% of the variance of the admission-promillages of the seventeen districts. The best prediction in the model is social-economic disadvantage. Those districts which have a large social-economic disadvantage (n=5) have 40% more admissions compared to those with a smaller disadvantage (n=6). The worse districts of Amsterdam are especially situated around the inner city.