neighbourhood in Elburg

Hoge Enk

920 residents · postal code 8085 · Part of Doornspijk, Elburg

Top 33% in the Netherlands

School close by, shops further off

Hoge Enk has the primary school five hundred metres away but the supermarket almost two kilometres off. That order is unusual and explains why the families pillar reaches 8.2 here while amenities stall at 4.4: these are two different distances, each counting in its own pillar.

The wealth figures are not clear-cut. Property value well above the median and a social assistance rate of zero, but the share of households in the lowest income group runs seven points above the national middle. The 7.0 is therefore an average of two directions, not a broad picture.

More than four in five square metres around this neighbourhood count as green, yet the tree canopy reaches barely above four per cent — less than half the national figure. At six hundred residents per square kilometre that yields a 6.9 for quiet & nature.

no. 4,314 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 13 of 20 in Elburg

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Is Hoge Enk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoge Enk comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

18.0 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.4 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

6.6 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 16 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

1.8 km

GP practice

1.9 km

Train station

5.3 km

Restaurant

1.7 km

Hospital

15.3 km

Café

2.7 km

Library

2.2 km

Motorway ramp

0.8 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

€ 490,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

87%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

82%

Built after 2000

21%

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

576 inw/km²

Noise level

49 dB

Green surroundings

80%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

126

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.2 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

46%

Childcare

1.8 km

Secondary school

2.9 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Hoge Enk has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4519%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
2.8 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
46% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
576 — far less 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 Hoge Enk a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Hoge Enk comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Hoge Enk?

In Hoge Enk the police recorded 16 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 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 Hoge Enk calculated?

Hoge Enk scores 7.5 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 Hoge Enk 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.