neighbourhood in Enschede

Boswinkel-De Braker

3,690 residents · postal code 7543 · Part of Boswinkel - Stadsveld, Enschede

Bottom 9% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Boswinkel-De Braker scores a 2.7 for wealth & income, and every component points the same way except vacancy, which sits exactly on the national median. Property values lag more than half behind the national median, over half of all households are on a low income, high incomes are rare, and social assistance runs almost eight times the national rate.

The 3.3 for safety has a clear source: property offences occur almost twice as often as nationally and make up nearly half of all reported offences, with vandalism second. Violence and burglary deviate less. Against that stands an 8.7 for amenities — everything you need day to day is within seven hundred metres, and the railway station just over three kilometres away.

no. 11,946 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 56 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Boswinkel-De Braker 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

38.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

17.9 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 185 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

0.6 km

GP practice

0.7 km

Train station

3.3 km

Restaurant

0.4 km

Hospital

2.2 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

1.7 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

€ 218,000

Welfare recipients

62.3 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

52%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

44%

Social housing

37%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

50%

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

6,314 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

35%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,720

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.9 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

0.4 km

Households with children

23%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.3 km

Residents under 15

11%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Boswinkel-De Braker has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 31%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1511%
NL median 14%
15–2514%
NL median 11%
25–4531%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+16%
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
1.8 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
54% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
23% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,314 — 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 Boswinkel-De Braker a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Boswinkel-De Braker comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Boswinkel-De Braker 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 Boswinkel-De Braker?

In Boswinkel-De Braker the police recorded 185 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Boswinkel-De Braker calculated?

Boswinkel-De Braker scores 3.1 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 Boswinkel-De Braker 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.