neighbourhood in Enschede

Elferink-Heuwkamp

3,035 residents · postal code 7545 · Part of Boswinkel - Stadsveld, Enschede

Bottom 8% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Elferink-Heuwkamp scores high on access and low on almost everything else. Supermarket, restaurant and primary school are within half a kilometre and the GP within a kilometre; that is where the 8.8 for amenities comes from.

The 3.3 for wealth & income has no redeeming component. Property values are far below the national median, fewer than one in ten households has a high income and almost half a low one, and more than twice as much social assistance is paid out as nationally. Only vacancy stays below the national median.

With crime, theft is the largest part, but violence too sits above the median here, which makes the picture broader than missing property alone. The 2.7 for quiet & nature belongs to surroundings with little greenery and noise well above the national median.

no. 12,130 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 58 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Elferink-Heuwkamp 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

40.4 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.7 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.0 per 1,000

Property crime

21.2 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 165 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

0.5 km

GP practice

1.0 km

Train station

2.3 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.6 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

3.0 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

€ 252,000

Welfare recipients

16.5 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

47%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

60%

Social housing

14%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

77%

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

4,773 inw/km²

Noise level

57 dB

Green surroundings

25%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,653

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.2 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

0.5 km

Households with children

26%

Childcare

0.8 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

12%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Elferink-Heuwkamp has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 21%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1512%
NL median 14%
15–2521%
NL median 11%
25–4532%
NL median 22%
45–6522%
NL median 28%
65+13%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
50% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,773 — 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 Elferink-Heuwkamp a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Elferink-Heuwkamp comes out at 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Elferink-Heuwkamp 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 Elferink-Heuwkamp?

In Elferink-Heuwkamp the police recorded 165 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (40 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 Elferink-Heuwkamp calculated?

Elferink-Heuwkamp scores 3.0 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 Elferink-Heuwkamp 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.