neighbourhood in Enschede

Buurtschap Lonneker-West

1,970 residents · postal code 7524 · Part of Landelijk gebied en kernen, Enschede

Top 17% in the Netherlands

Room to spare, amenities further off

Sixty-six residents per square kilometre, over a quarter tree canopy within three hundred metres and noise six decibels below the median: Buurtschap Lonneker-West scores 9.9 for quiet & nature, about as still as the Netherlands gets.

That a 5.9 for families stands alongside it, while almost half of households have children, comes down to distance. The primary school is nearly two kilometres away, and school distance is the heaviest component of that pillar; the other two distances in it, childcare and secondary education, are not known here. Living in the countryside here means driving. The wealth & income pillar reaches 9.5, carried by a property value near double the national middle and a third of households in the top income group.

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no. 12 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Buurtschap Lonneker-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buurtschap Lonneker-West comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood.

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Safety

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

Total crime

25.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.9 per 1,000

Property crime

10.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 78 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

2.0 km

GP practice

2.0 km

Train station

4.6 km

Restaurant

1.5 km

Hospital

4.8 km

Café

2.0 km

Library

3.4 km

Motorway ramp

1.0 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

€ 750,000

Welfare recipients

0.0 per 1,000

High incomes

35%

Low incomes

34%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

86%

Social housing

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

92%

Built after 2000

32%

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

66 inw/km²

Noise level

45 dB

Green surroundings

79%

Trees nearby

28%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

411

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.4 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

1.8 km

Households with children

49%

Childcare

1.8 km

Secondary school

2.7 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Buurtschap Lonneker-West has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4518%
NL median 22%
45–6532%
NL median 28%
65+18%
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
17% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
49% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
66 — 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 Buurtschap Lonneker-West a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Buurtschap Lonneker-West comes out at 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is about the same as in an average Dutch neighbourhood. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Buurtschap Lonneker-West?

In Buurtschap Lonneker-West the police recorded 78 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (25 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 Buurtschap Lonneker-West calculated?

Buurtschap Lonneker-West scores 8.7 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 Buurtschap Lonneker-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.