neighbourhood in Enschede
Eilermarke
2,005 residents · postal code 7534 · Part of Glanerbrug en omgeving, Enschede
Safe, but not spacious
For safety Eilermarke scores 10.0 and ranks in the national top thirty. Violence, burglary and vandalism are all three far below the national median, and the total number of reported offences is less than half the national figure. For a neighbourhood with almost six and a half thousand residents per square kilometre that is unusual.
The population is young: one in five residents is under fifteen, and only eight per cent is over 65. Every home was built this century. Even so the families pillar gets no further than 7.0, and that is down to distance: the nearest primary school is over a kilometre away, and school distance weighs more heavily in that pillar than the share of children.
The quiet & nature pillar stays at 4.4 because of density, not noise — traffic noise here is in fact well below the national median.
- no. 1,533 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 8 of 67 in Enschede
How Eilermarke scores
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Is Eilermarke a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Eilermarke comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Eilermarke 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, 18 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
Eilermarke has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 8%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1521%
NL median 14%
- 15–2513%
NL median 11%
- 25–4527%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
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
58% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,496 — 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 Eilermarke a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Eilermarke comes out at 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Eilermarke 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 Eilermarke?
In Eilermarke the police recorded 18 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (11 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 Eilermarke calculated?
Eilermarke scores 9.1 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 Eilermarke 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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