neighbourhood in Almelo

Ossenkoppelerhoek West

1,840 residents · postal code 7606 · Part of Ossenkoppelerhoek, Almelo

Bottom 35% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Everything within half a kilometre, and still an overall score of 5.1. Ossenkoppelerhoek West shows how little a 9.4 for amenities buys when the rest works against it: each pillar counts for a fifth, so proximity alone does not lift a neighbourhood.

What drags the score down is mainly theft. It runs at more than twice the national median here and accounts on its own for close to half of all reported offences; violence is slightly above the middle, burglary below it. That is the picture of a busy stretch of town where things go missing. The wealth & income pillar stays at 3.2, with property value well under the national middle and a social assistance rate almost three times above it. For families, the school five hundred metres away does yield an 8.0.

no. 8,611 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 30 of 67 in Almelo

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Is Ossenkoppelerhoek West a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

42.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.5 per 1,000

Property crime

20.3 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 104 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.4 km

GP practice

0.4 km

Train station

1.9 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.5 km

Café

0.9 km

Library

2.4 km

Motorway ramp

3.2 km

Tick = Dutch median

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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.

Property value

€ 236,000

Welfare recipients

21.7 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

65%

Social housing

25%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

70%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

4,199 inw/km²

Noise level

58 dB

Green surroundings

44%

Trees nearby

12%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,661

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.1 µg/m³

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

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

35%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

2.1 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Ossenkoppelerhoek West has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 28%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4528%
NL median 22%
45–6526%
NL median 28%
65+19%
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
2.1 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
39% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
35% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,199 — 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 Ossenkoppelerhoek West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Ossenkoppelerhoek West comes out at 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Ossenkoppelerhoek 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 Ossenkoppelerhoek West?

In Ossenkoppelerhoek West the police recorded 104 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (42 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 Ossenkoppelerhoek West calculated?

Ossenkoppelerhoek West scores 5.1 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 Ossenkoppelerhoek 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.