neighbourhood in Enschede

Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman

1,790 residents · postal code 7543 · Part of Boswinkel - Stadsveld, Enschede

Bottom 13% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, safety lags

Three in ten homes in Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman stand empty, more than seven times the national middle, and that is the figure the wealth & income pillar founders on. Property value is not extremely low here and the income spread deviates only modestly; it is vacancy and social assistance that make the 3.5.

The safety score of 2.9 has another cause: theft runs at over three times the national median and accounts for close to half of all reported offences, with violence at nearly double the middle. Both raised, so this cannot be written off as a bicycle problem. Almost half of the homes date from after 2000, which alongside that vacancy sketches a neighbourhood substantially rebuilt over recent decades.

no. 11,436 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 50 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman 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

63.3 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.3 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.3 per 1,000

Property crime

30.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 154 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

0.5 km

Hospital

2.1 km

Café

0.7 km

Library

2.0 km

Motorway ramp

1.2 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

€ 342,000

Welfare recipients

27.9 per 1,000

High incomes

17%

Low incomes

42%

Vacancy

30%

Owner-occupied

31%

Social housing

31%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

40%

Built after 2000

46%

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

2,551 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

37%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,224

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.8 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

0.9 km

Households with children

33%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

1.0 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2510%
NL median 11%
25–4526%
NL median 22%
45–6519%
NL median 28%
65+25%
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
2.2 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
44% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,551 — around the 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 Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman comes out at 63 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman 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 Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman?

In Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman the police recorded 154 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (63 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 Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman calculated?

Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman 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 Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman 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.