neighbourhood in Almelo
Hofkamp West
730 residents · postal code 7607 · Part of Hofkamp, Almelo
Everything close by, safety lags
Theft in Hofkamp West runs at three times the rate of the average Dutch neighbourhood and makes up close to half of all reported offences. Violence and burglary sit above the median too, so it would be too easy to write this off as a place where only goods go missing — the 2.7 for safety comes from several directions.
The second striking set of figures concerns who lives here and what stands empty. More than one in six homes is vacant, four times the national middle, and that pushes the wealth pillar down harder than property value itself does. A third of residents are over 65, against nine percent under fifteen; the population here is markedly old. That amenities reach 9.4 — everything within walking distance — matters more with that age profile than the score suggests.
- no. 11,555 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 50 of 67 in Almelo
How Hofkamp West scores
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Is Hofkamp West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hofkamp West comes out at 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hofkamp West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 79 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Hofkamp West has strikingly many residents aged 65 and over: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–159%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+35%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
46% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
22% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,564 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Hofkamp West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Hofkamp West comes out at 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Hofkamp West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Hofkamp West?
In Hofkamp West the police recorded 79 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (61 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Hofkamp West calculated?
Hofkamp West scores 3.4 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Hofkamp West lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Almelo
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Almelo.
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