neighbourhood in Enschede
Dorp Boekelo
2,755 residents · postal code 7548 · Part of Landelijk gebied en kernen, Enschede
Safe streets, thinner wallets
Dorp Boekelo combines two things that rarely go together: a 9.6 for safety and an 8.7 for quiet & nature. Among offences all four types sit below the national middle, burglary at a fraction of it. And the tree canopy around the village is more than two and a half times the national middle here, with greenery over seventy per cent and noise below the Dutch median.
Wealth is less clear-cut than the rest. High incomes are slightly over-represented, low incomes thinner than nationally and the social assistance rate less than half the median — but property value sits just below the Dutch middle and vacancy just above it. Hence a 6.3 rather than something higher.
In practice this centre is self-sufficient: supermarket, GP, school and restaurant are all within six hundred metres, while the station is seven kilometres away. More than a quarter of residents are sixty-five or older, which makes the 7.5 for families a figure about accessibility.
- no. 769 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 3 of 67 in Enschede
How Dorp Boekelo scores
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Is Dorp Boekelo a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp Boekelo comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorp Boekelo is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 41 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
The age profile of Dorp Boekelo looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–259%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
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
32% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
34% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,638 — 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 Dorp Boekelo a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dorp Boekelo comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dorp Boekelo is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Dorp Boekelo?
In Dorp Boekelo the police recorded 41 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Dorp Boekelo calculated?
Dorp Boekelo scores 9.6 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 Dorp Boekelo 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.
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